Indestructible Brotherhood 2013

On 7-11 October, the Indestructible Brotherhood 2013 joint peacekeeping exercise of the CSTO peacekeeping forces will be held at the 255th range of the Russian Central Military District, Chebarkul.

Belarus will be represented by a peacekeeping platoon of a peacekeeping company, the 103th guards independent mobile brigade of special operations forces.

The key objectives of the exercise is to train officers to prepare peacekeeping operations and control units of CSTO peacekeeping forces, improve fieldcraft of the personnel of peacekeeping forces during joint operations and strengthen mutual understanding and cooperation between CSTO member states.

The structure of the command bodies of CSTO peacekeeping forces will be reconsidered in order to improve it for accomplishing peacekeeping operations.

The exercise will involve service people from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.