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Russia and Belarus will be together to prepare for local war

March 10, 2009

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After six months of Minsk and Moscow will come to a new level to ensure the security of the Union State. Help them in that, in the view of Alexander Lukashenko, scheduled for September-scale joint exercises. "This year we go to a higher level of cooperation with the Russian Federation in the development of a regional grouping of troops. Improving its ability to protect the Union State is a top priority in implementing measures to establish a common system of military security", - said the president.

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He explained that the troops will practice "issues of joint planning and use of the regional grouping of troops of both countries and its management in a conventional local conflict." "In the joint training of government troops and the event attracted the largest of the forces and means. This is a fundamentally new stage in ensuring the safety of our Union State. At such a high level of practical cooperation in the military sphere, we come first to Russia", - stressed the head of the republic .

Presumably, in the exercise "West 2009" will involve some 13 thousand troops from Russia and Belarus, said Interfax. "In these exercises with the Russian side will be involved are not companies, and brigades. This will agree, big difference" - proudly noted the Minister of Defense of Belarus Leonid Maltsev, adding that Russia will take part in the maneuvers the Army, Air Force and Air Defense, radio exploration. He said that during the exercises on ranges Ashuluk and Telemba will work out issues of cooperation within the framework of the Unified air defense system the two countries, an agreement which is not so long ago, was signed in Moscow.


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