Kyrgyzstan (Sputnik) – The "active phase" of the Rubezh 2016 exercise brought together over a thousand of special operations troops from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Russia at the Edelweiss training ground in Central Asia.
"Representative from the US, China and India have been invited to monitor the active phase of the exercise in Kyrgystan," spokesman Col. Yaroslav Roschupkin said, adding military envoys from the six-nation CSTO military alliance were also attending.
This edition of war games is aimed at training interoperability of armed and police forces during counter-terrorist operations and repelling attacks on law enforcement authorities.
