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Senior Fellow @FPRI. Previously @USMC, @ColumbiaSIPA, @CentreAST. Focused on Russian defense policy.

Oct 15, 2021, 8 tweets

The Southern Military District is starting a large command-staff exercise with 8k troops at 25 training areas in Astrakhan, Volgograd, Rostov, Adygea, Dagestan, North/South Ossetia, Karachay-Cherkessia, Ingushetia, Chechnya, Crimea, Abkhazia, and Armenia.

The Black Sea Fleet and Caspian Flotilla will take part. The exercise will involve battalion and regimental force-on-force exercises. The objective is to test units' readiness and to provide commanders with command experience. 2/
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More than 2k servicemen from the GRU/GU's 10th Spetsnaz Brigade are being relocated to Crimea from Krasnodar for the exercise. 3/
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Video of snipers from the GRU/GU's GRU's 10th Spetsnaz Brigade engaging targets as part of the large command-staff exercise. 4/

Engineer bridging units will also take part in the exercise with TMM-3M2 heavy mechanized bridges. 5/
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A T-62MV tank was brought out for the Southern Military District command-staff exercise. 6/
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Snipers from the GRU/GU's GRU's 10th Spetsnaz Brigade with SV-98M rifles. 7/
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More than 50 sabotage groups were formed from Southern Military District spetsnaz to test units during the district command-staff exercise. 8/
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