The Slavic Brotherhood-2016 international drills will be held on November 2-15 near Belgrade, Serbia.
A peacekeeping unit of the Belarusian Army’s special operations forces arrived at Russia’s Ivanovo where the 98th Airborne Division of the Russian Armed Forces is deployed. The Belarusian military will be further transferred by Russian military aircraft to Serbia, news ageny BelaPAN reports with reference to Russia’s Defense Ministry. More than 50 Belarusian paratroopers came to Ivanovo from Vitsebsk.
Furthermore, over 150 members of the Ivanovski Battalion of Russia’s Airborne Troops are expected to take part the joint military exercise.
“Over 150 paratroopers will represent Russia at the international military drills ‘Slavic Brotherhood-2016’. Taking into account the specific nature and the plan of the drills, the servicemen of the separate reconnaissance battalion of the 98th Airborne Division were chosen to take part in the exercise,” the Russian Defense Ministry’s press service said.
In September 2015, the joint tactic exercise of Russian, Belarus and Serbian armed forces was held at the Rayevsky range in the Krasnodar Territory on September 2-5, 2015. More than 700 service personnel, including the re-enforced battalion of the 7th Russian Airborne Guards assault division, a separate company of the Serbian Airborne troops, two Belarus special task companies, and more than 20 aircraft took part in the exercises.
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