Russia interior troops hold massive exercises

Command and staff exercises engaging more that 20,000 servicemen of Russian interior troops and 1,300 trucks and armoured personnel carriers began on Monday.

The commander of interior troops, Colonel-General Nikolai Rogozhkin, supervises the exercises.

The chief of the interior troops' press service, Colonel Vasily Panchenkov, told Itar-Tass that command of all seven interior troop districts took part in the drill.

It is planned to move a number of units to the area of the exercises by air and rail, and some will make forced marches to training grounds, the officer said.

Source: Itar-Tass