The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

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The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation


Emblem of the Russian Federation`s Armed Forces; here: universal / all-embracing to all armed forces branch «Armed Forces of the Russian Federation» design from January 27, 1997.


Obverse side of the banner of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, commonly known as the Russian Armed Forces, are the military forces of the Russian Federation. They are divided into the Ground Forces, Navy, and Aerospace Forces. There are also two independent arms of service: Strategic Rocket Forces and the Airborne Troops. Under the federal law of Russia, the Russian Armed Forces, along with the Federal Security Service (FSB)'s Border Troops, the National Guard, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD), the Federal Protective Service (FSO), the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), the Main Directorate of the General Staff (GRU) and the Ministry of Emergency Situations (EMERCOM)'s civil defence form Russia's military services; and are under direct control of the Security Council of Russia.

The Russian Armed Forces are one of the world's largest military forces. As of 2019, the military had around one million active-duty personnel, which is the world's fourth-largest. Additionally, there are over 2.5 million reservists, with the total number of reserve troops possibly being as high as 20 million. It is mandatory for all male citizens aged 18–27 to be drafted for a year of service in the Armed Forces.

As the world's second-most powerful military, the Russian Armed Forces contain the world's largest stockpile of nuclear weapons; over half of the world's nuclear weapons are owned by the latter. It possesses the second-largest fleet of ballistic missile submarines, and is one of the only three millitaries operating strategic bombers. The Russian Armed Forces have the world's most powerful ground force, and the second-most powerful air force and navy fleet. Russia has the world's fourth-highest military expenditure, spending $61.7 billion in 2020.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Armed_Forces

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Heavily armed Russian heavy bombers flying over the Netherlands in 2011, being escorted out of the Dutch airspace by Dutch F-16 fighter yets, the Russians flew in the direction of the British Air space after that. This was a deliberate provocation. The Russians didn't announced their arrival in Dutch Air space.

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Two Russian Tu-160 strategic bombers were followed by fighter jets of five European countries in September 2019 while performing a routine flight over neutral waters in the Baltic Sea, as footage released on Tuesday shows.

"At certain sections of the route, the Russian long-range aircrafts were escorted by F-16 fighter jets of the Belgian, Danish and Polish air forces, Finnish F-18 fighter jets, and Swedish JAS-39 Grispen warplanes," Russian Defence Ministry said in a statement.

After performing a seven-hour flight the Russian jets returned to their airbase in undisclosed location.

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Russian Peace keepers in the world


Russian army in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Russian Federation as a permanent member of the UN Security Council is responsible for maintaining peace and security all over the world. In recent years, the Russian Armed Forces along with the other members of the international community have repeatedly participated in prevention or elimination of internecine and interethnic conflicts in the territories of both the former USSR Republics and in far-abroad countries. Geographic scale of such places is vast: South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Transnistria, Tajikistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Metohija, Angola, Chad, Sierra Leone and Sudan. In these countries Russian servicemen have already proved themselves to be experienced and highly qualified peacekeepers capable of accomplishing the assigned tasks.

Russian forces in occupied Abkhazia

NATO and Russia working together for peace in the Balkans



For more than five years, Russian and NATO soldiers have worked together in NATO-led peacekeeping operations in the Balkans, initially in Bosnia and
Herzegovina and later in Kosovo as well. Over the years, this on-going partnership has gone from strength to strength as Russian and NATO peacekeepers
have together risen to the challenge of restoring stability and bringing peace to this troubled part of the world, forging increasingly durable
relationships in the process. Relations and mutual understanding between Russian and NATO troops on the ground — many of whom patrol, live and serve
together in complex and difficult circumstances — have continued to improve.

Russia contributes by far the largest non-NATO contingent to the NATO-led peacekeeping forces. Russian troops make up some 1,200 of the 20,000
peacekeepers in the Stabilisation Force (SFOR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and some 3,150 of the more than 40,000 deployed in the Kosovo Force (KFOR) in
Kosovo and neighbouring countries. Moreover, as a result of linguistic, cultural and religious affinities, Russian peacekeepers have brought an additional
dimension to both SFOR and KFOR and have been able to play an especially important role.
Russian peacekeepers have accomplished their missions with military professionalism, discipline and even-handedness, and are working closely with
the other NATO and non-NATO militaries deployed in the Balkans. In addition to bringing peace and stability to Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, the
Balkan peacekeeping missions have enabled Russian and NATO militaries to build a greater understanding of one another and make significant advances in
interoperability. Over the months and years in both SFOR and KFOR, Russian and NATO peacekeepers Partners in peacekeeping: Russian and NATO soldiers
have worked together in the Balkans for more than five years.

On the other hand Russia has deep historical ties with Serbia and vehemently opposed NATO’s war over Kosovo in 1999. After an American-led bombing campaign, Serbia lost control over the region but continues to support Serbs there, vowing never to recognize the sovereignty of Kosovo, which it considers the cradle of the Serbian nation and of its Christian Orthodox faith. Mr. Putin has continued to back Serbia, as well as Serbs living in Bosnia and Herzegovina — and continued to dabble in the complex swirl of Balkan politics.

For starters, Moscow supported Bosnian Serbs when they held a controversial referendum in November that could lead to more — or even full — independence from Sarajevo. A month later, Russia backed fringe opposition parties in delicate national elections in Macedonia, another former Yugoslav republic. The European Union had organized the election to help bring the country back from the brink of collapse.

In Montenegro, Serbia’s tiny neighbor and a former Russian ally now set to join NATO, the authorities said they had foiled an October coup attempt that had been orchestrated by the Russians.

Then in January 2017, Moscow moved to help Serbia undermine Kosovo’s independence by supporting a series of provocations that have damaged diplomatic normalization efforts, known as the Brussels dialogue, that are sponsored by the European Union. That process had recently produced a small breakthrough, as Kosovo was about to get its own +383 calling code.

Since Kosovo declared independence in 2008, however, the ethnic Albanian-dominated government in the capital, Pristina, has failed to bring the predominantly Serb parts of the country north of the Ibar River under its control, including Mitrovica.

But as Kosovars were celebrating this breakthrough, the Serbs erected a concrete wall separating the northern, predominantly Serb part of Mitrovica from the ethnic Albanians in the southern part. It was built on the Serbian side of the bridge that crosses the Ibar, a project that the European Union funded in hopes of linking the divided communities.

European Union officials furiously demanded that the wall come down, but the Serbs remained defiant, forcing the official inauguration of the bridge to be postponed. This month, concrete blocks of the wall were bulldozed, but a metal barrier is still standing, blocking traffic and pedestrians.

Most inflammatory, the Serbian government sent a Russian-made train from Belgrade to Mitrovica, adorning its coaches with signs declaring that “Kosovo is Serbia” in more than 20 languages. Kosovo stopped the train at the border, accusing Serbia of wanting to stage an invasion of northern Kosovo, modeled on Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Serbia, in turn, accused ethnic Albanians of laying mines along the railway tracks and planning a bombing campaign of Serbs and their holy sites.

Serbia’s president, Tomislav Nikolic, who is thought to be backed by Russia as he seeks a second five-year term in the April election, threatened to send his troops back to Kosovo to protect the Serbs, if necessary.

Sources: www.nato.int/docu/presskit/010219/brocheng.pdf / www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/world/europe/russia-nato-balkans.html

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