2003, Vladimir Putin attended the Opening Ceremony of the base. And he called todays twentieth anniversary the most important anniversary date. The kant base is located 20 km from bishkek in the chui region and is an aviation component of the collective Rapid Deployment forces of the Central Asian region of the csto. Among the tasks are control of airspace over central asia, aviation support for csto regional ground forces, as well as support. Air Border Security bases of kyrgyzstan. The base is part of the Fourteenth Army of the air force and air defense of the Central Military district. The cant houses su25 attack aircraft, 8 helicopters, and orlan attack drones. Approximately 500 personnel are serving. Actually, a military airfield and a Flight School appeared on the territory of kyrgyzstan back in 1941, when the odessa military was evacuated there. School, in its fortyseventh renamed the frunzino military Aviation School of ussr air force pilots. Over half a century, more than 20,0
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We are joined by the spokesperson for the embassy of saudi arabia. Welcome to the program. I want to start with the role that saudi arabia is playing in the discussion between israel and hamas. It was the king who promoted the arab summit in beirut and it offers full normalization in all 21 members of the league of arab states for comprehensive we fastforward to the Current Crisis and the results have been very clear in its policies. Weve advocated for an immediate ceasefire, the release of hostages and the delivery of humanitarian assistance. Going forward, we still need to get the talks back on political track. And a tract that charts a clear and irreversible pathway to two state solution. This is what weve been advocating for years and we see it as the only sensible way forward. But can you explain little bit more, when you say there would be normalization between saudi arabia and israel freight just and comprehensive peace and youre talking about it two state solution, what are the
Normality, we will be able to. Then we will no longer be so dependent on help from our partners, but we will provide our own help to the front line, so we must win this winter battle first and we, we can win it and we can win the battle for who asks the pace of this war and who will put an end to it, very. To receive, it is very important to snatch weapons from the hands of the enemy, because we know that russia can only do this now, it can only kill those who are weaker, we know that even if those who gave, they have nothing, they are not are a source of some kind of economic development, other development, no, they are only a source of terror. And terrorism, but we are suffering from their actions, other nations are also suffering, because we have to take this tool of terror out of the hands of the russians, and in particular, the pppo systems will help with this, we will speak with the team today thats a lot, were going to share what we think is very important right now, but we re a
, andrei vitalievich marochko comes to us directly, andrei vitalievich, hello, there was information that in the kupinsky direction the Ukrainian Armed forces tried to counterattack, how successful was it, why there and in general, how is the situation . I wish you good health, ruslan, olesya, well indeed, to the northwest of the settlement of kupensk, this is from the area of the first liman to petropalovka, ukrainian militants immediately used three assault groups, each numbering up to platoons. Well, in fact , they tried to wedge into our line of defense, but hit the flank, so they tried to cut off our forward positions from supplies. I want to say that the plan was immediately clear, in principle, the enemy was predicted in a timely manner by our command, the militants were hit by fire, artillery, aviation, heavy flamethrower systems, having suffered losses, the enemy returned to previously occupied lines, but in general, i can say that now the enemy really has these last cha