Media: Russia is building two military bases close to the Ukraine

The Russian defense Ministry started the construction of a major military base in Boguchar, the Voronezh region, located 45 kilometers from the border with the Luhansk region.
According to documents, been available to Reuters, the Department of defense wants to turn the old military warehouse in bogucar to large base with dozens of buildings and structures designed to accommodate more than 1, 3 thousand Units of equipment and over 5, 2 thousand Soldiers.
on the location is expected to accommodate warehouses for ammunition, the medical unit, swimming pool and a large training complex. Construction work has already been started. According to the Agency, referring to the official Russian portal of public procurement (zakupki. Gov. Ru), for this base will be relocated motor rifle brigade from Nizhny Novgorod and other " units, ready to repel biological, chemical and nuclear attacks ". Maybe the story is about the 9th separate motorized rifle brigade (in/h 54046), one of the locations which, According to the Internet portal " Military unit of Russia ", is the city of Boguchar of the Voronezh region, reports Deutsche Welle. We emphasize that on August 25, the Voronezh business Internet portal De Facto unveiled details posted on the Internet office of procurement request "for capital construction and renovation of military camps ¹1 and ¹7" in Boguchar, the Voronezh region with a total price of up to 2 billion rubles. According to published information, the area of objects under construction will be 206 hectares, to complete the construction is planned to April 29, 2016. However, on 24 September of this information on the Internet office of procurement was not. Before the media that the construction of another military base is expected near settlements Valuiki in the Belgorod region, approximately 20 kilometres from the border with the Luhansk region of Ukraine. The General area of the military camp, presumably calculated on 3 thousand five Hundred soldiers will be 300 hectares. Authorized the Ministry of defence did not want to explain data on the issue of new military bases and the role they have a chance to play considering what is happening in Eastern Ukraine is an armed conflict. In this case the U.S. called possible the construction by Russia of a new military base near the border with Ukraine is a sovereign right of the country.


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