Twenty years after heroic but vastly outnumbered Pskov paratroopers bravely battled jihadist forces in the Russian republic of Chechnya, President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu have honored the fallen.
“Today… we commemorate the brave paratroopers, pay honors to their courage and their heroic deed,” Putin said as he reviewed the troops of the Pskov Airborne Division. He and Shoigu arrived in the northwestern Russian city of Pskov, the hometown of Russia’s oldest and most elite airborne division, to lay flowers at a memorial for those who fell in Russia’s second anti-terrorism campaign in the early 2000s.
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