MOSCOW, April 28 (AVN) - A group of 39 foreign military attaches accredited in Russia returned from Pskov, north-western European Russia, to Moscow on Saturday morning, a spokesman for the Defence Ministry foreign relations department told the Military News Agency.
The group spent two days in the 76th airborne division headquartered is located in Pskov and commanded by Major General Stanislav Semenyuta. The officials studied life and combat training of the division, observed the airdrop of paratroopers and combat equipment from transport aviation planes, and visited the 6th company of the 104th paratrooper regiment whose servicemen died in an uneven fight near the Ulus-Kert village in Chechnya overnight to March 1, 2000.
The group was permitted to make the working trip by Chief-of-Staff Anatoly Kvashnin. One of the main aims of the visit was to study peculiarities of paratroopers' combat training and their airborne practice. Several attaches including those of the USA, Italy, France, Canada and some others who had made parachute jumps before wanted to jump again using a D-6 serial airborne parachute. After a special training nine attaches successfully landed together with Russian paratroopers.