In Chebarkul, where a meteorite has fallen, unscheduled airborne maneuvers will take place, and the General Staff of the Armed Forces for the first time in 20 years conducts a sudden check. Coincidence?
To practice combat training missions at the Shagol airbase, at least 20 heavy military transport aircraft Il-76 and other military equipment landed. In the near future, they will all be relocated to Chebarkul. “The exercises are urgent, the combat readiness of the division will be checked,” a representative of the Ministry of Defense told the Chelyabinsk.ru correspondent by telephone, “they will last three to four days. Chebarkulsky range selected as the most prepared for heavy aviation».
Meanwhile, representatives of the Airborne Troops Command information are reluctant to share, referring to the order of the command. “By the order of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, the exercises are not closed, the press will not be invited to them, and the event will not be covered,” said Alexander Kucherenko, Assistant Commander of the Airborne Forces. “Information about how much military equipment has been relocated to the Chelyabinsk region is not subject to disclosure.”
Simultaneously:
For the first time in 20 years, the General Staff of the Armed Forces (AF) of the Russian Federation, at the direction of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, conducts a sudden check of combat readiness and combat capability, reports the Russian Defense Ministry on Tuesday.
"At the direction of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu, the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces conducts a series of measures for the sudden check of the combat readiness and combat capability of associations and formations of the Central Military District. A sudden check of the combat readiness and combat ability of such a scale is held for the first time in the last 20 years" in the message.
According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, one of the main tasks of the event is a sudden test of the ability of the command of the military district to organize interaction and combat use of a diverse group of forces in given operational-strategic areas.
"For this purpose, the event involved formations and military units of all types and combat arms of the Armed Forces deployed in the military district. Practical actions are attended by about 7 thousand soldiers, several hundred units of military equipment and about forty aircraft of various purposes", in the release.
It is curious that it was to Lake Chebarkul last Friday that the supposed meteorite fell, which caused a lot of noise to the entire Chelyabinsk region. The meteorite itself, however, was never found.
Whether the unscheduled exercises and the simultaneous decision of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (for the first time in 20 years) are related, it is not known about carrying out sudden inspections with a meteorite falling.
The press service of the Central Military District Nakanune.RU confirmed the fact of the exercise, but declined to comment.
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