More than 1,500 troops from Russia’s military base in the disputed region of South Ossetia have begun field exercises with the assistance of drones in nearby practice facilities, the Russian Ministry of Defence reported today.
South Ossetia has been under territorial dispute since the 1990s after local groups declared their independence from the state of Georgia. However Russia has maintained a military presence in South Ossetia and nearby Abkhazia following the conflict in 2008 between Russia and Georgia.
Now Russia has ordered its troops stationed in South Ossetia to undertake exercises which will combine the use of surveillance drones and their of …read more
Source: Newsweek
