RAWALPINDI: A contingent of Pakistan Armed Forces participated in openingceremony of multinational military exercise Kavkaz 2020 at Astrakhan,Russia on Saturday.
The Kavkaz 2020 would take place in the Astrakhan region, and the Black andCaspian seas from September 21 to 26.
Exercise Kavkaz (21-26 Sep) aims at assessing ability of troops to react tovarious challenges & learn from each other’s experiences, said ISPR in atweet.
Besides the hosts, troops from China, Belarus, Iran, Pakistan, Armenia andMyanmar is taking part in the drills while India has withdrawn over itslatest clashes with China at Himalayan border.
Director General ISPR Major General Babar Iftikhar said, Kavkaz 2020exercise is aimed at assessing ability of troops to react to variouschallenges and learn from each other’s experiences. The week-long exercisewill commence from Monday, informed the authorities.
“Overall about 80,000 people are expected to be involved in the Kavkaz-2020strategic command and staff exercise including combat support units, combatservice support units and technical support units.
As well as air defense and naval units, and special troops (the FederalNational Guard Troops Service and the Ministry for Emergency Situations),”the ministry has informed.
Up to 250 tanks, up to 450 mechanized infantry fighting vehicles and APCsand 200 artillery systems along with multiple-launch rocket systems will beused in the exercise.
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The authorities have disclosed that the exercises will be held under thecommand of Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces ValeryGerasimov.
“Military units from Armenia, Belarus, China, Myanmar and Pakistan wereinvited to train joint actions within force groupings, up to 1,000 foreignmilitary overall,” the ministry added.
The Defense Ministry’s Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper wrote that about 100Chinese military have arrived in Russia’s Astrakhan region to participatein the Kavkaz-2020 command and staff exercise.
“Two Y-20 military transport aircraft of the Chinese Air Force withmilitary of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army on board have arrived inthe Astrakhan region,” it said, adding that the planes had airlifted about100 military as well as military hardware.
In times of Corona virus, prior to leaving for Russia, the Chinese militarywere tested for corona virus. Russian medics are control the implementationof the SOP’s, this included the wearing of masks and compliance withepidemiological measures.
The Indian authorities also confirmed on Augsust 29, 2020 that in a bigstep in the backdrop of an ongoing conflict with China in eastern Ladakh,India conveyed to Russia that its troops would not be participating in themultinational military exercise Kavkaz-2020 where Chinese and Pakistanitroops are also going to be there.
