Russia sharply increases the number of peacekeepers to carry out special tasks
By 2021, peacekeeping units will appear in every military district of Russia.
A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, citing sources in the Ministry of Defense, Izvestia writes.
Thus, by the end of 2020, a new organizational structure and its number will be approved, the general parameters of which have already been determined; technical details are now being worked out.
“This contingent receives additional training when performing special tasks. The military is trained in English, international humanitarian law, conflict resolution, interaction with civilians, setting up checkpoints and inspecting vehicles. The new peacekeeping units will retain their combat functions and weapons. But they will also undergo additional retraining,” the newspaper writes.
Former UN Deputy Secretary General Sergei Ordzhonikidze says that today Russia has specialized peacekeeping units that can both conduct combat operations and carry out humanitarian operations.
In turn, military expert Viktor Murakhovsky noted that the deployment of Russian peacekeeping units takes an order of magnitude less time than UN contingents, recalling that it took XNUMX hours for the Russian peacekeeping forces to arrive in Karabakh.
“The UN does not have a permanent military presence. When the Security Council decides to deploy peacekeepers, it usually specifies which countries are providing them. Only after this does planning begin, which takes a month at best. If it is urgent to station peacekeepers somewhere on the dividing line, then UN observers will be there in a few days, and the military contingent will be there in weeks or even months. And in this sense, our peacekeepers simply have no competitors,” concluded Murakhovsky.
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