On Thursday, February 17, the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov, made a new statement regarding the return of our troops to their places of deployment.
"In accordance with the training plan of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, formations and military units that have completed training tasks at training grounds are marching to permanent deployment points in a combined way," the general said. - Loading of heavy armored vehicles is carried out on railway platforms. Separate units make marches as part of convoys accompanied by military police. The commanders of formations and military units who have worked out the entire complex of combat training measures at the training grounds have been tasked with developing plans and schedules for the return of units to permanent locations."
Meanwhile, the first units that have made marches are already arriving at their military garrisons. So, according to Konashenkov, the logistics units of the Western Military District, who completed tasks at the training grounds in the Kursk region, having marched over a distance of more than 700 km, arrived at a permanent deployment point in Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod region, tonight.
Also on Thursday, military echelons with heavy military equipment of the units of the Southern Military District, who worked out tasks at training grounds in the Crimea, were transferred by rail over a distance of more than 1.5 thousand kilometers to permanent deployment points in the Chechen Republic and the Republic of Dagestan.
Railway echelons with armored vehicles of units of the 1st Tank Army of the Western Military District, who performed combat training tasks at training grounds in the Kursk and Bryansk regions, arrive at their military garrisons in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
"Military units and subunits working out tasks as part of the reaction forces of the Union State within the framework of the ongoing Russian-Belarusian exercise "Allied Determination-2022" on the territory of the Republic of Belarus on February 19 will conduct practical jokes with live firing at the ranges of the republic," the general said. "After the completion of the exercise, the formations and military units of the Russian Federation will return, as always, to their permanent locations."
Yuri Gavrilov