The Russian gang formation of the Black Sea Fleet marines holds maneuvers in Crimea on a firing ground near the mountain Opuk, the Russian paper Flag of Motherland writes.
About 100 military vehicles, including BMP-2s and BTR-80s, were places in Sevastopol on large landing ships "Caesar Kunnikov" and "Nicholas Phylchenkov" to take part in the maneuvers.
Russian soldiers carried out a 100-kilometer march on the firing ground and worked out standards for loading and unloading in a military way.
The main objective of the maneuvers was to work out the landing and the capture of the coast of the "enemy", which is Georgia for Russia now.
For the next six weeks, tactical live-fire exercises and battalion tactical exercises are scheduled.
Attention is to be drawn to the fact that Russian military exercises are taking place against the background of a program on the Georgian TV station Imedi, which included a report about an alleged invasion of Georgia by Russian troops and the murder of the Georgian president Saakashvili.
Moscow regards the report as provocative. Saakashvili's opponents in Georgia tried to make the scandal bigger. They are helped by Russian secret services. In Internet, they posted on a false wiretapping of a conversation´between the Imedi's chief director Giorgi Arveladze and head of Information and Political Department of the Imedi, Eka Temalashvili, who allegedly said that the report about the invasion of Georgia by Russian troops had been ordered by Saakashvili.
Meanwhile, according to many analysts, the Imedi's report and a subsequent reaction of the population gave the Georgian authorities a very useful experience which will certainly be used in preparations for a real Russian invasion of Georgia, which, as the maneuvers in Crimea show, is not to be excluded.
Department of Monitoring,
Kavkaz Center
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