Russia's Military Units Having Completed Exercises Are Returning To Their Bases

In accordance with the training plan for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, formations and military units that have completed training tasks at the training grounds make marches to permanent deployment points in a combined way, Russian Defence Ministry spokesperson, Major General Igor Konashenkov said on Thursday.

Loading of heavy armored vehicles is carried out on railway platforms. Separate units make marches in column, escorted by military police.

The commanders of formations and military units, which have completed combat training measures at the training grounds, were tasked with developing schedules for the return of units to their permanent deployment points.

The first units that marched arrive at their military garrisons.

Combat service support units of the Western Military District, which practiced tasks at the training grounds in Kursk region, having marched over a distance of more than 700 km, arrived at the permanent deployment point in Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod region, tonight.

Also today, military trains with heavy military equipment of the units of the Southern Military District, which completed tasks at the training grounds in the Crimea, were transferred by rail over a distance of more than 1.5 thousand kilometers to permanent deployment points in the Chechen Republic and the Republic of Dagestan.

Trains with armored vehicles of units of the 1st Tank Army of the Western Military District, which performed combat training tasks at training grounds in the Kursk and Bryansk regions, arrive at their military garrisons in the Nizhny Novgorod region.

Military units and subunits practicing tasks as part of the reaction forces of the Union State as part of the ongoing Russian-Belarusian exercise Union Courage 2022 on the territory of the Republic of Belarus, today and on Saturday, February 19, will hold practical actions with live firing at the training grounds of the Republic.

After the completion of the exercise, the formations and military units of the Russian Federation will return, as always, to their points of permanent deployment.