Tunnel training has been added to the attack aircraft training program

Training in tunnels and underground communications has been introduced into the combat training program for assault units of the Russian Armed Forces (AF). This approach is necessary to improve the effectiveness of operations when taking enemy positions. When developing the program, the experience gained during combat operations in Donbass was used, sources in the Russian Defense Ministry told Izvestia.

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Experts note that our troops are fighting in industrial areas full of underground communications.

Our fighters will be trained mainly to move through narrow underground labyrinths in conditions of limited visibility - complete darkness or with poor lighting, says Valery Yuriev, chairman of the executive committee of the International Union of Paratroopers.

"They will also study the use of hand grenades in enclosed spaces. They will definitely be massively used there. Perhaps the fighters will also be shown hand-to-hand combat techniques, here it is not excluded the clash with the enemy nose to nose. In addition, it is necessary to know how to organize and establish communication in the tunnels, because it will not be everywhere," he said.

The newspaper's interlocutors noted that the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) turned such towns as Staromayorsk, Urozhaynoye and Ugledar into defensive areas, seriously fortified them, including equipping underground facilities and communications. And many fortification works underground have been carried out since 2014, they specified.

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