ROSTOV-ON-DON. Nov 14 (Interfax-AVN) - The North Caucasus military district has completed a series of command post exercises where servicemen practised rapid location and elimination of possible biological contamination areas, Major General Sergei Naryshkin, chief of the district's WMD protection troops, said on Wednesday.
Participants in the exercises practised operations in the territories where biological terrorists had carried out so-called pin-point terrorist acts and in crowded areas where wide-scale sabotage acts were committed, Naryshkin told Interfax-Military News Agency.
The district's WMD protection posts deployed for the exercises fully accomplished their missions. Units of the WMD protection troops trained interaction with formations of the North Caucasus regional center of civil defense and emergencies as well as with Interior Ministry departments in southern Russian regions, Federal Border Guard Service and several regional R&D institutes.
According to Naryshkin, the command qualifies operations of the troops on localization and elimination of contamination sources at all stages of the exercises as qualified and timely. During the exercises their participants worked out proposals on optimizing the establishment of the WMD protection troops in the district, which include radiation, chemical and biological protection units, reconnaissance and contamination finding detachments.