MOSCOW – Pakistan Military participates in one of the largest military wargames in Russia.
Russia launched massive military exercise Center-2019 on Monday, theDefense Ministry said.
The opening ceremony of the six-day drill took place in the southernOrenburg region with the participation of military chiefs from China,India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan, theministry said in a statement.
Some 128,000 soldiers, more than 20,000 units of military equipment andover 600 aircrafts take part in the drill.
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Some stages of the military exercise will be held in the member countriesof the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) — Russia, Armenia,Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan — the statement noted.
The drill, which runs through Sept. 21, aims to work out the skills ofinterstates coalition forces in challenging global terrorism and “ensuringsecurity in the Central Asian strategic direction”, as well as to”strengthen the cooperation with the allies
