MINSK, April 15 – RIA Novosti. Belarus continues preparations for the military parade to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the great Patriotic war, will involve 185 pieces of equipment, said on Wednesday the press service of the defense Ministry of the Republic.
Earlier, the Belarusian foreign Minister Vladimir Makei said that the decision on holding in Minsk of the parade to the Victory Day will be taken by the authorities closest to 9 may, given how the rest of the situation with coronavirus COVID-19.
“preparation for a mechanized column to a military parade to mark the 75th anniversary of the Victory of Soviet people in the great Patriotic war. These days the calculations and the crews of military equipment work out the issues of coherence in a special area in the terminal area Lipki”, – stated in the message on the website of the Ministry of defense.
According to the Agency, it is planned that the composition of the mechanized column will be 18 parade, led by the legendary tank T-34, just as will involve 185 units. The total length of the column is about two kilometers. A distinctive feature of the parade this year will be that it will involve only new and modernized samples of military equipment from the armed forces, the main calculation of light armored vehicles for “Fox” from the internal troops of the Ministry of interior, the front payment from goskomvoenproma Republic, 27 presented the latest samples of arms and military equipment, said the Ministry of defence.
“In the composition of the mechanized column will be powerful armored vehicles, anti-aircraft missiles, artillery and multiple rocket launchers. Among them: tanks T-72B3; armored personnel carriers – BTR-80 and BTR-70МБ1; a reactive system of volley fire “Belgrade” and “Polonaise”; anti-aircraft missile complex “tor-M2”; cars “hero” and “Dragon”; armored vehicles “Cayman” and unique with the most advanced and modern technologies and software signal corps of the armed forces, produced at domestic enterprises”, – said the press service.
the President of the Republic Alexander Lukashenko said on 27 March that Minsk does not intend for pandemic coronavirus to cancel the event on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the great Patriotic war. The President noted that all scheduled festive events will be organized at the highest level.
the world health organization on 11 March announced the outbreak of a new coronavirus infection COVID-19 pandemic. According to the latest world health organization, worldwide there were more than 1.84 million cases, more than 117 thousand people died. In Belarus, according to information on Tuesday, the number of infected COVID-19 was 3281, including a reported 33 dead.
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