Russian and Belarusian airborne troops hold drills in Kuban

Major Irina Kruglova, a spokeswoman of the Russian Airborne Forces, said that the air assault battalion of the 7th guards air assault division was taking part in joint drills with Belarusian troops in Krasnodar Territory. A company of 20 Belarusian airborne troops parachuted from an Il-76 plane with D-10 parachute systems. In addition, 250 soldiers and two military crates were dropped, ITAR-TASS reports.

Soldiers are training coordination, use of advanced communications, automatic control systems, offensive operations, shooting. They will hold shooting drills at the Rayevsky Training Range in Krasnodar Territory. Su-24M and Su-25 jets and Nona-S artillery will be used in the training process. The drills will continue until September 5.