Vitebsk is preparing to widely celebrate the 70th anniversary of the 103rd mobile brigade
Vitebsk is preparing to widely celebrate the 70th anniversary of the 103rd Separate Guards Mobile Brigade of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Belarus.
As Valerian Matskevich, Chairman of the regional organization of the Belarusian Union of Veterans of the War in Afghanistan, stated, 260 guests from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, and Kazakhstan have been invited to the celebrations. Among them are the current and former commanders of the Russian Airborne Forces Vladimir Shamanov, Georgy Shpak, and Valery Evtukhovich, President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the Volga Federal District Mikhail Babich, Member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Franz Klintsevich, and the sons of the legendary commander of the USSR Airborne Forces Vasily Margelov, Alexander and Vitaly.
The anniversary celebrations are planned to be attended by the Minister of Defense of Belarus, Major General Andrei Ravkov, the Commander of the Special Operations Forces, Major General Vadim Denisenko, and the Chairman of the Standing Commission of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus on National Security, Valery Gaidukevich.