The NSDC of Ukraine: Military exercises in the West do not provide combat shooting
International military exercise Rapid Trident-2014, which will participate Soldiers from fifteen countries in the world, do not involve live fire, said at a press conference authorized the information centre of the national security and defense Council of Ukraine Andriy Lysenko. " (Teachings do not allow for combat shooting, " said Lysenko, quoted by RIA " Novosti ". He noted that the exercise will involve about 1, 3 thousand soldiers and 700 pieces of different mechanisms. The exercise started on the first day of the week in Lviv region. According to information from the Ministry of defence of Ukraine, they will last two weeks and will be held on the square of the international centre for peacekeeping and security of the Academy of Ground forces named after Hetman Petro Sahaidachny (Yavoriv military training ground). We emphasize that at the beginning of the Exercises were scheduled for July, but was postponed to a later date. The Russian foreign Ministry have said before that the planned Exercises and accompanying statements lead to tension, pose the danger signs of progress in the peace process in Ukraine.