Russia left troops in Belarus after the exercises “West-2017”, – Muzhenko

The chief of staff said that after the exercise of the Russian Federation led a small part of the military.

Russia has sent to Belarus to participate in the exercise “Zapad-2017” a much larger military contingent and did not withdraw it at the end of the military maneuvers.

About it in interview Reuters was declared by the chief of the General staff of Ukraine Viktor Muzhenko.

Muzhenko said that Russia was scheduled to participate in exercises 3 thousand soldiers, but in Belarus they arrived much more.

“We have information that they brought only a few units from the stated 12.5 thousand soldiers, of which supposedly 3 thousand were Russians, but there actually was much more,” he said.

The head of the General staff said that Russia withdrew some troops defiantly to simulate the return to places of permanent deployment of the military contingent.

“Russia has demonstrated, and it was primarily a demonstration, the return of aviation units: they withdrew from the airfields and flew to Russia. But we understand that 300-400 km for aircraft is the distance that can be overcome in a very short time,” he said.

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