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NEXT TRAIN WITH RUSSIAN MILITARY HARDWARE TO LEAVE GEORGIA
Interfax News Agency
Russia & CIS Military Newswire
June 7, 2006 Wednesday 5:28 PM MSK
This year's seventh train with materiel of Russian military bases
being withdrawn from Georgia will leave the city of Batumi on Thursday,
Colonel Vladimir Kuparadze, deputy commander of the Russian military
force in Transcaucasia, told Interfax- Military News Agency.
"The train will depart from Batumi, where the 12th Russian military
base is stationed, to Armenia early on Thursday," Kuparadze said.
"The train will deliver 42 wheeled vehicles and other materiel to the
Armenian town of Gyumri, where it will be added to the 102nd Russian
military base's inventory," he noted.
In addition, a convoy of wheeled vehicles of the 62nd military base
will leave for Gyumri from the Georgian town of Akhalkalaki early on
Thursday. "These are 15 KamAz automobiles carrying materiel and six
cannons," Kuparadze said.
He recalled that six trains with armaments, hardware and other materiel
of the Russian bases have left Georgia. Four of them carrying materiel
of the 62nd base headed for Russia, while the two others left Batumi
for Armenia.
The Russian military bases are to be withdrawn from Georgia in 2008.
Interfax News Agency
Russia & CIS Military Newswire
June 7, 2006 Wednesday 5:28 PM MSK
This year's seventh train with materiel of Russian military bases
being withdrawn from Georgia will leave the city of Batumi on Thursday,
Colonel Vladimir Kuparadze, deputy commander of the Russian military
force in Transcaucasia, told Interfax- Military News Agency.
"The train will depart from Batumi, where the 12th Russian military
base is stationed, to Armenia early on Thursday," Kuparadze said.
"The train will deliver 42 wheeled vehicles and other materiel to the
Armenian town of Gyumri, where it will be added to the 102nd Russian
military base's inventory," he noted.
In addition, a convoy of wheeled vehicles of the 62nd military base
will leave for Gyumri from the Georgian town of Akhalkalaki early on
Thursday. "These are 15 KamAz automobiles carrying materiel and six
cannons," Kuparadze said.
He recalled that six trains with armaments, hardware and other materiel
of the Russian bases have left Georgia. Four of them carrying materiel
of the 62nd base headed for Russia, while the two others left Batumi
for Armenia.
The Russian military bases are to be withdrawn from Georgia in 2008.