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Preparation of aircraft groups of the Russian Aerospace Forces for redeploying to airfields in the Russian Federation has been finished

Preparation of aircraft groups of the Russian Aerospace Forces for redeploying to airfields in the Russian Federation has been finished.

Engineering and technical staff loaded equipment, logistics items and inventory into military transport aviation.

Aircraft are to carry out flight from the Hmeymim airbase to permanent location airfields on the territory of Russia accompanied by military transport aviation. In the course of the long-range flight (more than 5,000 km), the aircraft will conduct intermediate flight stops at the Russian Federation airfields for being refueling and technical condition monitoring.

In accordance to the order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the Defence Minister of the Russian Federation General of the Army Sergei Shoigu commanded to redeploying main part of the Russian Armed Forces grouping, which had been performing tasks on eliminating terrorists in the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic, to the territory of the Russian Federation starting March 15, 2016. 

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