ROSTOV-ON-DON, September 27 (AVN) -- The Russian government has decided to provide fuel from the state reserve for federal aviation forces in the North Caucasus, a source in Air Force Army Four, stationed in the North Caucasian military district, said on Monday.
Since the beginning of the anti-guerilla campaign, federal avation has spent more than 40,000 tons of kerosene, he told the Military News Agency.
The government meets all other needs of the aviation group in the North Caucasus. Its ammunition stocks are three times above the norm, a source in the arms department of the Air Force Staff told the Agency. Federal pilots and aviation specialists who take part in the hostilities are also the first to receive salaiers and all types of allowances. They have already been paid back all wage arrears and social compensations envisaged by law, he said.