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    Emil Lazarian
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Caucasus 2020: Armenian and Russian troops hold major live fire drills

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 17:37,

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 24, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian Armed Forces held counterattacking scenario drills at the live fire phase of the Caucasus 2020 command-staff military exercises held jointly with the troops of the Russian Southern Military District.

Major General Tigran Parvanyan, the Commander of the Armenian-Russian Joint Military Formation, told reporters that the scenario of the drills involved counterattacking imaginary enemy forces which breached the state border.

He spoke highly about the “harmonious” actions of the Armenian and Russian troops.

Tank and military UAV units were also involved.

Special Forces paratroopers were dropped into imaginary enemy area from Mi-24P and Mi-8MT gunships in counterterrorism drills.

Artillery, anti-aircraft, aviation and other units participated in the drills.

More than 1500 troops and 300 units of military equipment from both Armenian and Russian militaries are deployed for the Caucasus 2020.

Reporting by Lilit Demuryan; Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS