Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

06/18/2021 | News release | Archived content

The active phase of the Russian-Belarusian-Serbian tactical exercise Slavic Brotherhood-2021 has ended at the Raevsky training ground

18.06.2021 (20:30)

The active phase of the Russian-Belarusian-Serbian joint tactical exercise Slavic Brotherhood-2021 has been completed in the Krasnodar territory at the Raevsky training ground near Novorossiysk.

During the live-fire stage, the conditional group of an illegal armed formation (IAF) was completely eliminated.

The military personnel of the combined unit blocked and destroyed scattered bandit groups that refused to lay down their weapons in the area of responsibility of the joint Russian-Belarusian contingent.

With the task of additional reconnaissance of the area of the IAF location, the troops of the three countries were landed from Mi-8AMTSh helicopters with special-purpose parachute systems of the wing type from an altitude of 2 thousand meters.

The first attack on the clusters of conditional terrorists was carried out by the Su-25 attack aircraft of the operational-tactical aviation and the K-52 Alligator helicopters of the Army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces.

After that, the coalition unit carried out a non-parachute landing and landing by landing method, a special purpose group from the Republic of Serbia captured a mountain pass and released civilians held in the militant camp.

Under the cover of artillery, the units reached the lines and with fire from T-72BM3 tanks, BMD-4M combat vehicles and BTR-80 armored personnel carriers suppressed the resistance of the IAF, after which the amphibious assault units raided the area for the final capture and destruction of the terrorists.

During the tactical episode, a combined unit consisting of military personnel of the assault unit from the Russian Federation, the special forces unit of the Republic of Serbia and the personnel of the parachute division of the Special Operations Forces of the Republic of Belarus performed a non-parachute landing on the launching devices and landing method.

At the end of the exercise, the IL-76MD military transport aircraft landed three humanitarian supplies to the population in the liberated zone of the joint counter-terrorist operation using cargo platforms.

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The international exercise Slavic Brotherhood-2021 was held from 8 to 18 June. The servicemen from Russia, Belarus and Serbia practiced planning and implementing joint actions on counter-terrorism issues as part of a multinational tactical group in the area designated under the terms of the exercise. On June 16-18, the active phase of the joint exercise was held.

In total, about 100 soldiers of the special brigade of Serbian Armed Forces, about 300 soldiers of the Vitebsk airborne unit of Belorussian SOF on 60 units of standard military equipment, as well as more than 500 soldiers and over 100 units of special equipment of the Kuban airborne assault regiment of the Novorossiysk airborne unit took part in the exercise.