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More than 100 foreign military attaches the first time today to visit the indoor facility the Defense Ministry – National Center for administration of national defense, TASS reported.
«Despite the suspension of military contacts with Western countries, we operate in a spirit of maximum transparency and confidence, opening the door for military attaches of foreign countries, without exception,” – said Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov at a briefing for foreign military attaches in NTSUO.
According to him, today’s meeting is timed to a sudden check the combat readiness of the Northern Fleet and some military units of the Western Military District, held from 16 to 21 March on the orders of the President of the Russian Federation.
« unannounced inspections in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation held in an atmosphere of openness and maximum only in Russia – said Antonov.
– We are fully and frankly it highlights the progress in the Russian media. ” He noted that as soon as the Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu was ordered to start the sudden check “immediately convened a meeting of senior military leadership, to which were invited representatives of the media».
Antonov reminded that the head of the Russian Defense Ministry National control center oboronoy.podrobno designated forces, the means and the challenges that the Armed Forces have to decide during the audit, as well as in the presence of the press has given the necessary instructions to the heads of military control. “Despite the fact that the parameters of the exercise does not exceed the limit, according to which the Russian Federation is obliged to inform the European countries about such events, we will immediately spread through the channels of the OSCE official notification to this effect. In this case, we indicate the number of the composition and number of affected equipment, “- said the deputy minister of defense.
« So we did before, so we will act in the future – said Antonov. – All of this is done in order to avoid misinterpretation of the actions of Russian armed forces of foreign countries and to prevent the occurrence of crises ».
The deputy head of the Defense Ministry said that the meeting was held in difficult military and political conditions prevailing around Ukraine and near the Russian border. “We fix a significant build-up of military activity of NATO member countries, conducting large-scale exercises designed to perfect scenarios joint action to repel the so-called” possible aggression “by Russia. Filled with military equipment bases in Eastern Europe, despite the fact that earlier Brussels assured us in his restraint in placing so-called combat forces near the Russian border, “- said Antonov.
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