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In the Pskov and Leningrad regions, command and staff exercises of the organization of the collective security agreement began, Interfax reports citing the headquarters of the Western Military District. About six thousand military personnel and thousands of units of military equipment will take part in them.

The maneuvers will be involved in the formations of the military units of the ZHO, the Airborne Forces of Russia, the Armed Forces of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. “A wide range of tasks of organizing the interaction of the diverse and multinational grouping of troops will be developed, its actions in the exacerbation of the conflict situation in one of the border regions of the CSTO member state,” the reservation of the press service said, “the troops will have to solve the problems of blocking the groups of conditional enemy troops and conducting a combined fire fight with a comprehensive fire influence.”

At all stages of the exercises, operational-tactical and army aviation, units of missile forces and artillery will be actively applied. The exercises are planned and will last until August 19.

On June 29, Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu said that strategic deterrence measures are being held to neutralize potential threats in the Western military district. "At present, about 1.2 thousand units of military equipment, including 30 combat aircraft, and there are also more than 1000 troops of the Western European countries NATO and the United States, are located on the territory of the Eastern European states on a rotational basis. Fighting ships of the US Navy and other alliance countries regularly enter the Black and Baltic Seas," the minister said.

"A special concern causes the placement of the systems about the USA in Eastern Europe. May 12, on the combat duty, the AEGIS ASHORE missile system in Romania, the launchers of which can be used to accommodate the TomaGavk cruise missiles," the minister said.

In this regard, much attention is paid to the provision of formations and military units with modern weapons, military and special equipment. According to Shoigu, this year more than 2 thousand units of new and modernized equipment will enter the district.

Shoigu also said that the Baltic Fleet was reinforced by the 11th Army Corps. "The technical re -equipment of the fleet forces is ongoing. Over the past three years, two warships, six boats of various destinies, the latest volley systems and air defense systems have been entered in the formations and military units. All this contributed to the increase in the combat potential of the Baltic Fleet," the minister said.