Colonel General Yuri Grekhov, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) responsible for armament, said that they will deploy missile defense (ABM) systems in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries. He made this statement after the 57th meeting of the coordination committee on air defense issues under the Council of Defense Ministers of the Commonwealth countries, held in Tula. RIA News.
According to Grekhov, who is the chairman of this committee, the integration of forces and means capable of solving aviation defense tasks into regional air defense systems does not stand still. According to him, the development and implementation of programs to equip the air defense forces of the CIS member countries with promising air defense and missile defense systems is also currently ongoing.
Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces noted that these measures are aimed at completing the practical implementation of interstate agreements on the creation of regional air defense systems in collective security zones and the international legal framework for cooperation within the framework of the Russian Federation. unified CIS air defense system.”
Now in the unified air defense system countries of the CIS – the Russian Federation, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan – only the Russian Federation and Belarus have missile defense systems.
Before that, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin saidHe said that the capital, together with the Russian Ministry of Defense, has done a lot to protect the city from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and terrorist attacks, including building new air defense systems in a matter of weeks.
Previously the air defense system in Kiev reputed best of the world.