SAMARA, Central Russia, April 27 (AVN) - Russian Chief-of-Staff Anatoly Kvashnin arrived here from the western Siberian city of Yekaterinburg on Thursday, the Military News Agency learned in the headquarters of the Volga military district.
Kvashnin is supervising a computerised exercise in progress in the Volga and Ural military districts, a headquarters spokesman said.
Air Force Commander Anatoly Kornukiv has also arrived in the city. He is to supervise the actions of the Air Force and Air Defence units stationed in the territory of the two districts. In the course of the training, the command point of the Ural air defence zone was re-deployed from Yekateriburg to Samara. Its mission is to organise the repulse to an aerial attack of the enemy from the Central Asian direction.
"The difficulties that the troops can face here are almost identical to those in the North Caucasus," Kornukov said. "Many problems of armed counteraction are even sharper, as several Central Asian republics are not fully ready for rebuffing the aggression of a potential enemy," he stressed.
In the course of the exercise, the troops are training management of an army group and interaction between units, formations and military commissioner's offices in accomplishment of operative and peacemaking missions at the Central Asian theatre of operations.
As it was earlier reported, Russia invited observers from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan to attend the exercise. According to the information obtained by the Agency, military experts of these countries have not shown up here so far.