High alert: Russia tests army’s readiness in massive snap exercise in west & south
Russian Army units as well as the Air Force, Airborne Troops and the Navy’s Northern Fleet have been put on high alert as part of a large-scale snap exercise which the Defense Ministry says will check troops’ readiness to tackle emerging crises.
“According to the decision of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces [President Vladimir Putin], a regular snap exercise begins today,” Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said at a briefing with top military commanders on Thursday.
“Troops in the Southern Military District, some units of the Western and Central Military Districts, as well as the Northern Fleet, the Air Force and the Airborne Troops, are to be put on full alert starting from 7.00am [local time],” the minister added.
Unannounced combat readiness inspection started in the Southern, Western and Central MDs
Southern MD formations and units are moving to concentration areas
Central MD motorized rifle and artillery brigades are leaving their bases
Heavy motorized rifle and artillery brigades of the Central MD located in the Orenburg Region have been alerted and started performing combat training tasks within the unannounced combat readiness inspection.
Been pretty busy in these parts today starting with the dawn patrol in the wee hours this morning. Civilian traffic seems to be not affected, we had to go to City Center and there were no problems or slowdowns during both legs of the trip.
These drills make Da West nervous for some reason but it’s a ‘must do’ part of training.
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Has Russia, like Germany, issued a warning to the population to stockpile water, food and cash ?
No. It is normal here for many to keep a stock of necessities but there is no instruction from On High to stock up. Perhaps Mutti Merkel knows something we don’t? I doubt it.
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There will be no, repeat, no repetition od June 22, 1941.
And that is the Putin’s message to full neofascistic spectrum.
Smrt neofashizmu – Sloboda Svetu!
{ Death to neofascism – Freedom to the World }
Regards, Spiral
This “may be” (hopefully) seen as a warning to Poroshenko and his “fascist buds” to not get “jumpy” and attack Donbass . Whether they are smart enough to “read the writing on the wall” is debatable though.