The brigade that forced Georgia to peace was sent to Karabakh
As part of the agreement signed by Moscow, Yerevan and Baku, 1960 Russian peacekeepers and 470 pieces of equipment were sent to Nagorno-Karabakh on military transport aircraft, and the core of the contingent will be units of the 15th separate motorized rifle brigade (peacekeeping) of the Central Military District.
Izvestia writes about this, citing data from the Russian Ministry of Defense, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
In addition, citing its sources, the publication clarifies that on the Russian side in the peacekeeping operation it was decided to involve the 102nd military base, which is deployed on the territory of Armenia, the 31st air assault brigade from Ulyanovsk, as well as units of the separate 45th Guards airborne special forces brigade located in Kubinka near Moscow.
According to the newspaper's interlocutors, already on Monday, November 9, more than two dozen Il-76 military transport aircraft gathered at the Kubinka and Ulyanovsk airfields to transport paratroopers. The planes arrived from Tver, Taganrog and Pskov.
The publication also describes what the 15th Motorized Rifle Brigade is.
“This is the largest peacekeeping unit in the Ground Forces. The brigade was assigned this status in February 2005. Some of them are fully staffed by contract soldiers and are part of the UN international peacekeeping forces. She already has experience maintaining peace in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone from 2005 to 2008.
The choice of landing units for the operation in Nagorno-Karabakh is also not accidental. The 31st Air Assault Brigade is the only one in the Airborne Forces that has peacekeeping status. For this purpose, since 2013 it has been equipped entirely on a contract basis. Earlier, the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper reported that special attention in the training of the 31st brigade is paid to peacekeeping specifics and skills in performing tasks using non-military methods: negotiating, demonstrating presence and readiness to solve problems by force.
The 45th Special Forces Brigade is famous for having participated in all modern conflicts involving the Russian army. She has experience in combat operations in the Caucasus during the operation to force Georgia to peace in 2008,” the publication writes.
Let us recall that the ceasefire agreement was signed through the mediation of Moscow after the Armenians were on the verge of complete military defeat due to the successful offensive of the Azerbaijani army.
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