Belarus, Russia mull over Union State project to restore Brest Fortress facilities
16:28, 20 October
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Belarusian Defense Minister Lieutenant General Viktor Khrenin and Russian Defense Minister Army General Sergei Shoigu held a bilateral meeting before a session of the joint collegium of the defense ministries of Belarus and Russia in Moscow on 20 October, BelTA has learned from the Defense Ministry.
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The defense ministers discussed the extension of the agreements on the deployment of Russian military facilities, namely the Baranovichi communication center and the Vileika radio station, in the Republic of Belarus on the same terms. The signing of these international agreements will advance bilateral military cooperation between Belarus and Russia.
The ministers also reviewed the Union State project "Reconstruction (modernization), restoration of the buildings of the youth patriotic education center at the Kobrin fortification of Brest Fortress". The project seeks to preserve the tangible and spiritual heritage of Brest Fortress, to educate the younger generation on the historical examples of courage, perseverance and heroism shown by the Brest Fortress defenders during the Great Patriotic War.
