MOSCOW. May 15 (Interfax-AVN) - The CIS military cooperation coordination headquarters is satisfied with results of a joint military exercise of the Collective Security Treaty member-states that ended at the Gorokhovets proving range of the Moscow military district on Tuesday.
"Results of the exercise prove that the national military contingents have the sufficient composition and number of armaments and their personnel training is on the required level, so them can efficiently accomplish missions concerning counteraction to illegal armed formations," Major General Yevgeny Nikoforov, official of the headquarters responsible for the interaction of CIS control bodies in preparation and conduction of the exercise, told Interfax- Military News Agency.
The exercise involved some 900 servicemen from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.
The war games lasted for a month and ended with demonstrative combat live firing. Participants in the firing practiced joint actions against guerilla groups that broke into the territory of a maneuver country. A tank battalion, three motorized rifle companies, an artillery battalion, a missile battalion, two SAM batteries, a flame-throwing platoon, an airborne assault platoon and a sapper platoons, aviation, and a special purpose group were involved in the offensive and defensive operation.
Lieutenant General Alexei Merkuryev, commander of the 22nd Russian joint-arms army, supervised the exercise.