/ world today news/ Vladimir Putin ratified an agreement with Belarus on the creation and operation of combat training centers based on almost all types of troops of both countries. Their main task is to increase the combat training of the air force, anti-aircraft missile specialists and ground troops. As experts note, these centers will significantly strengthen Russia’s defense potential and help both to conduct a military defense system and to deter NATO countries.
On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law ratifying an agreement with Belarus on the creation and operation of combat training centers for the joint training of servicemen. Last week, the document was ratified by the State Duma. The agreement itself was signed this March.
In accordance with the agreements, centers will be formed on the territory of military units. They are intended for training and combat tasks, on duty and increasing the level of coordination. Decisions to open centers will be made jointly by the defense ministries of both countries. They will determine the direction of their activity, composition, structure and location.
In this case, the admission of representatives of the sending country to military facilities or enterprises of the military-industrial complex is determined by the receiving country. The commander of the military unit, on the basis of which this or that center will be created, will be responsible for organizing the day-to-day activities of the center.
According to the document, the host country provides the military contingent with the necessary real estate free of charge and is responsible for the engineering and airport provision of the center. Along with this, the repair of weapons, military and special equipment, vehicles, as well as their maintenance will be carried out by organizations of the country to which they belong.
As Alexey Polishchuk, director of the Second Directorate of the CIS countries of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, noted, these centers can be created for almost all types of troops based on military units in both Russia and Belarus. At the same time, in March 2021, the defense ministers of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus agreed to establish three combat training centers in the Nizhninovgorod and Kaliningrad regions of Russia and in the Grodno region of Belarus.
In turn, the State Secretary – Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia Nikolay Pankov said at a hearing in the State Duma that the centers are needed above all to “increase the combat training of the air force, anti-aircraft missile and ground troops specialists, as well as as unit coherence”.
It is also worth noting that on Tuesday Putin also signed a law on the ratification of the protocol with amendments to the Russian-Belarusian agreement on joint provision of regional security of December 19, 1997. The amendments affect the order of joint planning, the use of a regional grouping of troops of Belarus and Russia and the financing of joint operational, mobilization and training-combat activities.
Experts conclude that military cooperation between Moscow and Minsk is reaching an increasingly high level, since the degree of integration of the national armies of Russia and Belarus will be much greater than the degree of integration between NATO countries.
In addition, constant joint exercises are absolutely necessary to unify the approaches to solving certain problems of both the Russian Armed Forces and the Belarusian Armed Forces. When people study in the same classrooms, work with the same equipment, do everything next to each other and side by side – this significantly increases their interaction in the event of real combat operations.
“I’ll give you a simple example. Belarus has been asking Russia for modern weapons for a long time. Among them are the S-400 air defense system and the Iskander OTRK. But based on the high price and demand on international markets, the supply problem continued until relations between Russia and the West deteriorated,” recalls Alexander Alesin, a Belarusian military expert.
The solution to the problem was found, among other things, through the creation of Russian-Belarusian centers for the training of military personnel. This will make it possible not only to train the Belarusian military to work with modern Russian equipment, but also to put this equipment on combat duty in Belarus.
“These centers must be on training and combat duty. That is, in the process of training and training the personnel, they will perform a real combat task. For example, the same S-400 is used to protect the airspace, and “Iskander” is used to deter the aggressive intentions of a potential adversary,” Alesin explained. The specialist emphasizes that the creation of centers is extremely important, since the S-400, together with the A-50U aircraft, “shoots down Ukrainian aircraft at a distance of up to 400 kilometers.” And taking into account the unofficial data that the S-400s are already located on the territory of the Grodno region, such operations “can be carried out with the air forces of hostile Poland, if it takes any aggressive actions.”
The Polish military aviation, if it starts to threaten us, will be hit as soon as it takes off from their airfields. Combat training centers are therefore a strong deterrent. The presence of the Iskander OTRK in Belarus will also strongly make the potential aggressor think about whether it is worth testing us,” the speaker noted.
“The decision to create centers is correct and timely. This will increase the coordination of the actions of the military personnel of both countries in emergency situations and during combat duty. This will strengthen our military potential on the western borders – in the areas adjacent to Kaliningrad Oblast and Belarus, as well as in the southern part of Belarus,” explains Alexander Bartosz, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Military Sciences. The expert adds that in NATO countries, the interaction of personnel and the standardization of equipment are well organized, but now Russia and Belarus will rise to a higher level.
“We will strengthen the standardization of staff procedures and speed up decision-making in various combat situations. This increases the combat potential of Russia and Belarus, this is an important step in strengthening our capabilities,” the source added. “If there were no restraining factors, we would have witnessed much greater insolence on the part of the Poles and those NATO contingents stationed on Polish territory and in the Baltic countries,” he believes.
The expert also believes that the strengthening of military cooperation between Russia and Belarus will be deeper than in NATO. “We have the same mentality, a common historical past, there are no contradictions on religious, ethnic or other grounds. Exercises have already been held in which Belarusian and Russian servicemen acted as part of the same crews, together they formed companies, platoons, battalions that carried out combat missions under the command of Belarusian or Russian officers,” he recalls: “In fact, as he said President Alexander Lukashenko, we are one army. In fact, it is a regional grouping of the ground forces”.
“The decision to create training centers will strengthen the defense of the union state in the western direction. With such pressure on Russia and Belarus, it is necessary to constantly strengthen our fraternal community and increase the coherence of actions,” says Andrey Koshkin, head of the department of political analysis and socio-psychological processes of Plekhanov State University, a retired colonel.
According to him, the NATO countries suffer from the fact that they cannot fully “regulate the coordination of the actions of multinational forces, this is their weak point.” All this leads to confusion in joint exercises and other maneuvers. “That’s why our centers are real support points for increasing combat readiness. This is a move towards closer and more effective integration between the two countries,” the expert is confident.
Translation: V. Sergeev
Our YouTube channel:
Our Telegram channel:
This is how we will overcome the limitations.
Share on your profiles, with friends, in groups and on pages.
#teach #Belarusian #army #fight #Russian
