Paul Goble
Staunton,
February 6 – Military sources tell AiF-Urals
that the defense ministry is currently planning to reverse the 2010 military
district reform and go back in large measure to the borders of such structures existing
prior to that time, a step that may save money but will allow for the
reassignment of numerous commanders.
According to the report, three of the four currently
existing military administrative arrangements will be restructured. The Central
Military District, headquartered in Yekaterinburg, will be divided up with the
larger share going to a renewed and expanded Siberian MD (ural.aif.ru/society/situation/ozvucheny_plany_po_reforme_armii_centralnyy_voennyy_okrug_podelyat
In
the European portion of the country, the report says, Moscow plans to go back
to the “Soviet” pattern of having a Moscow MD and a Leningrad MD, the borders
of which are still being discussed. The Southern MD will remain in its current
borders. The reforms are to occur later this year and be completed by 2020.
The AiF-Urals source said that the center
plans to relocate military units when this reform occurs in order that each MD
will have what it needs to carry out its “strategic tasks.” The 2010 reforms which included more than
just the redrawing of borders were extremely unpopular among commanders. This
is the latest and perhaps last part of a plan to reverse them.
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