“We are grateful to our colleagues from different countries, who found the opportunity to participate in the competition and show their mastership,” Shoigu declared. “Participating troops have been demonstrating day and night for two weeks all their military skills on the training grounds across our country, in the sea and in the air.”
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Defense Minister Shoigu expressed gratitude to all the participants for showing exciting performances and competing fairly and to volunteers, who provided the successful staging of the games. He noted that this year’s contest would be the inaugural event and the games would be held annually.
The Tank Biathlon contest had the biggest competition with crews participating from 13 different countries.
“Tonight, giving the summary of the Games and awarding the winners, I’d like to highlight that we are inviting every team to participate in the competition, every country that will come to us with peace. And we’d like to see countries battling only on the training fields, but not in the real conditions,” Shoigu concluded.
The International Army Games 2015 were held August 1st to 15th on 11 training ranges across three Russia’s military commands – the Western, the Southern and the Central. Fifty-seven teams from 17 countries from Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, which competed at the Games.
