Holiday of the peacekeeping forces. Day of Russian peacekeeping forces celebrated in Sukhum

The holiday of Russian military peacekeepers is celebrated on November 25. In fact, this is a professional holiday for those servicemen of the RF Armed Forces who are ready to sacrifice themselves for the sake of ending bloodshed in certain countries and reigning peace. This is by no means pathos, it is objective reality... Quite a few peacekeeping missions are proof of this.

One of these is the peacekeeping mission in the Republic of South Ossetia. This was the first mission of Russian blue helmets in the post-Soviet space. The implementation of the tasks set by the command began in July 1992, when the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict led to numerous casualties and the spread of the fire of the war in the Caucasus.

Official Tbilisi, which at that time actively declared about its own freedom of choice and the beginning of an "independent" political and economic existence, decided to deny exactly the same South Ossetia. On January 19, 1992, a referendum was held in South Ossetia, during which the majority - 98% - of those who voted in favor of independence from Georgia with subsequent joining Russia. The Georgian rulers at that moment were deciding the issue of forcibly coercing the Ossetian people to abandon their choice.

As a result, it was the participation of Russian peacekeepers in the very mission that began its work on July 14, 1992 that actually extinguished the armed conflict.

Russian military personnel carried out their task until August 2008, when, on the orders of then Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, Georgian troops staged a bloody provocation in South Ossetia. Using armored vehicles and multiple launch rocket systems, the Georgian army attacked not only the peacefully sleeping Tskhinvali, but also the Russian peacekeepers.

In Tbilisi, this operation was positioned as the final stage of the so-called "Throwing the Tiger", when the stake was placed on the support of the United States and the OSCE. But, as you know, the United States decided to stay on the sidelines, watching how hundreds of millions of dollars spent on armaments, uniforms and training "gallant Georgian soldiers", who were thrown into a clear provocation against Russia by their president, are thrown down the pipe. And they stayed on the sidelines, since they did not expect that Russia would give such a powerful rebuff.

As a result of that adventure, during which the American partners literally merged their puppet Saakashvili, the Russian peacekeeping forces suffered losses. The first of them were carried at the observation post of the Russian MS, where the Georgian troops were aiming at them.

It should be noted that the Russian peacekeepers could not respond with fire for several hours, waiting for an order. For several hours, Georgian tanks, MLRS, snipers worked at the peacekeeping base of the Russian Federation, turning it into ruins. Among the killed peacekeepers - Sergei Kononov, Alexander Shmyganovsky, Anton Marchenko, Alexander Yasko, Kublan Gimatov.

Only by 8:00 am the peacekeeping contingent of the RF Armed Forces received an order to open return fire. The main task was being fulfilled: to detain the Georgian troops at the entrance to the capital of South Ossetia - Tskhinval. As a result, the peacekeeping battalion, a number of whose servicemen had no experience of participating in hostilities, suffered losses, largely managed to contain the onslaught of the Georgian troops until the arrival of the main forces, which eventually completed the task of forcing Tbilisi to peace.

The footage of Mr. Saakashvili chewing on a red tie is a vivid illustration of how, thanks in part to the heroism of the Russian military peacekeepers, it was possible to stop the genocide of the Ossetian population and thwart Tbilisi's plans prepared by the Western special services.
Today, the representatives of Western countries on the agenda include the issue of provocations against the Russian peacekeeping contingent on the banks of the Dniester. The controlled Moldovan government has once again raised the question of the "need" for the withdrawal of the Russian peacekeeping contingent from Transnistria. There is only one goal: another attempt to subjugate the PMR population, including through blood and violence, as it was already in the early 90s. And the Pridnestrovians themselves understand that if Russian blue helmets leave the banks of the Dniester, the Moldovan authorities will start an invasion using the available forces and means. The West will only push to kindle another fire of tension near the Russian borders. But, fortunately, the Russian MCs are not going to leave Transnistria, realizing that only their presence is cooling many hotheads from another war today.

And today, given the importance of the accomplishment of tasks by Russian peacekeepers, “ Military review"Expresses gratitude to the Russian military personnel of the peacekeeping contingents for the service that truly prevents the most serious bloody conflicts. Indeed, as practice shows, this service sometimes remains the last reliable guarantee of peace in this or that part of the planet.

Abkhaz and Russian politicians, the military laid flowers at the monument to Russian peacekeepers.

Sukhum. 21st of June. Apsnypress. Dmitry Basaria. A memorial meeting was held at the monument to Russian peacekeepers in Sukhum, dedicated to the Day peacekeeping forces Russia. The event was attended by RA President Raul Khadzhimba, Speaker of the Parliament Valery Kvarchia, Prime Minister Gennady Gagulia, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the RA Aleksey Dvinyanin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of South Ossetia to the RA Oleg Botsiev, Plenipotentiary Representative of the PMR in the RA Harry Kupalba, representatives of the Government , the leadership of the Ministry of Defense of Abkhazia and the 7th military base of Russia.

Opening the rally, Acting Deputy Commander of the 7th Military Base, Colonel Igor Fedorov noted: “June 21 is considered the day of the creation of collective forces to maintain peace and the commonwealth of independent states. Peacekeepers in Abkhazia have traveled a dangerous path, creating conditions for maintaining a stable peace, and, thereby, earning respect from the population. Due to the presence of Russian peacekeepers, the armed conflict, as a result of which the parties lost more than 7 thousand people, was stopped. A lot of work has been done to prevent the incitement of armed clashes, demining territories, providing assistance to the local population in settling life after the end of hostilities, and restoring life support facilities. The interruption of the armed confrontation came at a cost to the peacekeepers themselves. 117 servicemen died in the performance of their military duty. "

Adviser to the President of Abkhazia for Science, Culture and Education Vladimir Zantaria also stressed that the Day of Russian military peacekeepers is a date filled with deep symbolic meaning in recent history our country. “The citizens of Abkhazia appreciate the role of the Russian peacekeepers in the fate of our state, in the process of strengthening its security and sovereignty. The fact that today we live in an atmosphere of peace, stability and entering the channel of creation and revival is largely due to the successful interaction of the leadership of the military structures of Russia and Abkhazia. We remember that Georgian politicians and military leaders in every possible way hindered the normal course of peacekeeping activities of the CPKF in Abkhazia. There were provocative demands from Tbilisi for the withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers from the confrontation zone. All this was done to start a fire. a new war... We bow our heads before the memory of the brave peacekeepers who died in the course of taking measures to prevent provocative actions of Georgian sabotage and terrorist formations, ”Zantaria said.

Alexey Dvinyanin noted that the monument to Russian peacekeepers stands opposite the monument to the Unknown Soldier of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 and this symbolizes the eternal connection between the feat of our fathers and grandfathers during the Second World War with the feat of our brothers and sons, who showed courage and heroism on the Abkhaz land. “In difficult times of crisis for the self-determined Abkhaz Republic, in June 1994, the CIS collective peacekeeping forces, manned by Russian servicemen, were brought into Abkhaz territory. The word peacemaker itself consists of two words "peace" and "create", therefore peacemakers are the creators of peace, tranquility and security. There can be nothing nobler than this holy mission on earth. Low bow to those soldiers and officers who gave their lives for the calm and prosperous life of the beautiful Apsny. Eternal memory to them! " - said the Dvinyanin.

The participants in the funeral rally laid flowers at the monuments to Russian peacekeepers and the Unknown Soldier.

The organizers of the event are the 7th Russian military base and the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Abkhazia.

Today, June 13, a meeting of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security was held, which was dedicated to Russia's participation in the maintenance or restoration of peace and security, chaired by Viktor Ozerov, Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security. The event was attended by representatives of the Russian Ministry of Defense, members of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and other departments. Russia has been conducting peacekeeping missions for 25 years, starting with the settlement of the Ossetian-Georgian conflict. This was stated by Viktor Ozerov, Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security. new Russia There are many vivid examples when the country's peacekeeping activities really brought peace, saved the lives of thousands and thousands of people. This year marks 25 years of the first such peacekeeping operation, which was carried out with the aim of settling the Ossetian-Georgian conflict, "Ozerov said. This task, he said, is entrusted to the Civil Defense Committee and emergencies, which was headed by Sergei Shoigu. Ozerov stressed that this first successful experience "laid the tradition of conducting peacekeeping operations." “Now we can name both Abkhazia and Kosovo. Even the operation in Aleppo, although it was of a more humanitarian nature, in principle, was also peacekeeping - this activity of the Russian Federation, of our servicemen, of course, deserves attention, "he added. The head of the committee recalled that Russia is a permanent member of the UN Security Council and, along with other states is responsible for maintaining and restoring peace. This year, Russia for the first time began training women as military observers at the UN. This was announced by the Chief of Operations Directorate - Deputy Chief of the General Staff Ground forces Major General Igor Smoliy. According to him, UN military observers and peacekeeping officers are trained at the Combined Arms Academy for courses in Naro-Fominsk. Smoliy specified that 63 servicemen are serving as military observers and officers of the UN Secretariat. The geography of the observer service covers the problem regions of the Middle East and Africa. "... They cope with their duties," he noted. The event also reported that the Day of the Russian Military Peacekeeper will soon appear among the official holidays; it is planned to celebrate it on the day of the start of the first Russian peacekeeping operation in the Ossetian-Georgian conflict. This was announced by Viktor Ozerov. "We actively support the draft decree, which the Ministry of Defense has already submitted for consideration, on the Day of the Peacemaker in Russia, so that we can tell the truth about those of our servicemen who saved tens and hundreds of thousands of people," - noted Ozerov. He added that a specific date for the celebration of the Day of the Peacemaker should be discussed with veteran organizations. In turn, Igor Smoliy said that the interdepartmental agreement of the document was almost completed. He noted that the Russian Defense Ministry has organized work to create a departmental medal "To the participant in the peacekeeping operation."

Peacekeeping is a truly significant and outstanding profession. Its importance is determined based on the main request of civilization - security and development. There is no security - and development, in its essence, is impossible. In turn, there is no development - security problems may well arise. To perform the function of ensuring security outside the country, a peacekeeping contingent is responsible, which receives an appropriate international mandate, including a mandate at the level of regional agreements.

Since 2016 in The armed forces Oh Russian Federation A new holiday is celebrated on November 25 - Day of the Russian military peacekeeper(not to be confused with International Day of the Peacemaker). It was established by a corresponding decree of the President of the Russian Federation in August last year.

The historical reference of the holiday goes back to November 25, 1973 - the day when the first group of 36 Soviet officers arrived in Egypt to participate in the resolution of the flaring Arab-Israeli crisis. Soviet peacekeepers were officially included in the United Nations mission. Servicemen of the Armed Forces of the USSR were involved in the group of observers for the observance of the ceasefire regime in the region Suez Canal as well as in the Golan Heights.

Witnesses to the dispatch of the first Soviet peacekeeping contingent as part of the UN mission abroad say that the choice Soviet Union approached with special responsibility. The selection of officers was carried out from half a thousand applicants. They were chosen according to a number of criteria, including not only "the difference in military and political", but also knowledge of a foreign language. First of all, preference was given to military personnel who are fluent in Arabic.

After 1973, the boundaries of the involvement of domestic peacekeepers expanded. These are missions in Lebanon, Cambodia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, etc. After the collapse of the USSR, Russian peacekeepers took part in the work of international missions in the republics of the former Yugoslavia, Georgia, and Tajikistan.

For a quarter of a century now, Russian military personnel have been providing peace on the banks of the Dniester. Despite all the attempts of individual Moldovan politicians to squeeze the Russian contingent out of Transnistria, the soldiers of the MS of the Russian Armed Forces are taking up their positions with the sole purpose of preventing a war from flaring up on the Dniester again. Unfortunately, the Russian peacekeepers, like the entire people of the Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublika, today find themselves in fact in a blockade. In order to carry out the rotation, to deliver everything necessary to the peacekeeping base, every time you have to go to the most real political battles - so that the battles do not eventually spill over into the category of the military. It is obvious that there are many hotheads in Chisinau who still believe that the crisis can be overcome by a “small victorious war” against Transnistria.

Russian peacekeepers kept peace in the Transcaucasia as well. The mixed peacekeeping forces contributed in 1992 to the end of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict on the territory of South Ossetia. At that time, Russian peacekeepers had to make a lot of efforts to preserve the mechanism of mixed peacekeeping forces in the zone of military confrontation. The reason for the obvious difficulties of the Russian mission in Georgia was the fact that the Georgian contingent conducted open activities to discredit the peacekeepers of the International Peacekeeping Forces of the Russian Armed Forces. Official Tbilisi did everything to present Russian servicemen as persons who “violate by their presence in South Ossetia international law". What it turned into in the end, everyone remembers very well.

By the personal order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Georgian Armed Forces, President Mikhail Saakashvili, on August 8, 2008, Georgian troops attacked not only the sleeping Tskhinvali, but also the location of the Russian peacekeeping contingent. On the eve of that aggression, the Georgian observers left the headquarters, and the battalion, together with the regular troops that had invaded the city, opened fire on Tskhinvali and on the positions of the Russian MS. International commissions and eyewitnesses later confirmed that the very first shells exploded near the location of the Russian peacekeepers. Russian and Ossetian MCs had to take defensive positions and fight, protecting the civilian population. And only thanks to the military operation to force the aggressor to peace, the actual extermination of the Ossetian people in the RSO was stopped.

This is one example of how individual politicians, trying to play bloody games in the interests of their protégés, try to dispose of one peacekeeping contingent as executioners, and others as hostages.

Nowadays, options for a resolution on a peacekeeping mission in Donbass are being discussed.

The essence of the Ukrainian version of the document is that peacekeepers should be deployed throughout the territory of Donbass, including the section of the Russian-Ukrainian border not controlled by Ukraine. In turn, Moscow insists that the functions of the contingent be limited only to the protection of OSCE observers on the border of Ukraine with the unrecognized republics - in the Minsk-2 format.

Considering the very essence of peacekeeping missions, the Ukrainian proposal is initially flawed. The place of peacekeepers is not in the rear of one of the parties to the conflict, but on the confrontation line. They are not border guards to stand on the border between Donbass and Russia, not occupation troops to occupy the entire territory of the republic. Many political observers agree with this, but differ on another issue.

Is the very presence of peacekeepers in the conflict zone between Ukraine and the republics of the DPR and LPR really necessary? Of course, it is impossible to judge unambiguously today. It is also understandable that Russia wants to end the war, to stop casualties and destruction. But it is impossible not to calculate the actions of the West, which may try to push the peacekeeping forces precisely to the border between Russia and the unrecognized republics. And this at the same time means a change in the status of Russia in the internal Ukrainian conflict. Already the parties to the conflict are not the DPR and LPR, on the one hand, and Kiev, on the other, but Russia and Ukraine. That is, what Mr. Poroshenko is striving for, what is being said across the Atlantic, becomes, as it were, a "fact": "Russia is an aggressor."

On November 25, 2018, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will celebrate a new holiday - the Day of the Russian Military Peacekeeper, established by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin of August 1, 2018. Peacekeeping is an important and serious profession. Military peacekeepers are responsible for the security of Russia. Therefore, a holiday is only the smallest thing that the government could give to representatives of this profession.

In August 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin established a new holiday - the Day of the Russian Military Peacemaker. The date of the celebration was chosen for a reason, it was on November 25, 1973 that a Russian group of military personnel flew to Egypt to resolve the acute Arab-Israeli conflict. Soviet peacekeepers became part of the UN mission. Russian military peacekeepers actively followed the Suez Canal ceasefire in the Golan Heights.

The government carefully selected the people who joined the Soviet peacekeeping contingent along with the UN, and went on a mission abroad. Of the 1,500 officers, only 36 were selected. To get into the ranks of peacekeepers, it was not enough to be an excellent officer, you had to know foreign languages(fluency in Arabic), possess certain qualities and be a patriot of their country.

Over time, there were more and more people wishing to join the detachment of Russian military peacekeepers. After a short period of time, the missions took place in:

• Angola;
• Cambodia;
• Lebanon;
• Sudan;
• Sierra Lyone;
• Democratic Republic of the Congo;
• the former Yugoslavia;
• Georgia;
• Tajikistan.

For 50 years, Russian military peacekeepers have been keeping order on the banks of the Dniester. Despite the fact that the Moldovan government has more than once tried to expel the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from Transnistria, the servicemen are confidently holding the blow and are watching the maintenance of peace. However, every year it is more and more difficult to hold on to the war, in fact, the peacekeepers found themselves in a blockade.

Thanks to the Russian military peacekeepers, they managed to:

• keep peace in the Transcaucasus;
• peacekeeping activities on the Tajik-Afghan border;
• solution of the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict;
• maintaining peace in Burundi;
• maintaining peace in the Republic of Chad and CAR;
• end the Georgian-Ossetian conflict.

Serious difficulties in fulfilling the mission arose in Georgia, the Georgian government neglected the peaceful intentions of the RF Armed Forces. Georgian officials tried to expose Russian troops persons who violate international law.

At the moment, the question of the fulfillment of the mission of Russian military peacekeepers in the territory of Donbass is being sharply raised. However, Ukraine and Russia cannot come to a common agreement, so there are more questions than answers.

Traditions of celebrating the Day of the Russian military peacekeeper

The Day of the Russian Military Peacemaker is an important professional holiday created for people who are responsible for security, and also worthily represent Russia in many parts of the world. In 2018, the holiday will be celebrated on November 25, Sunday. Traditionally, on this day, the top management awards the best servicemen with awards, certificates, diplomas, awards, and also thanks for excellent service.

The officers' houses are awaited by relatives who are preparing a festive buffet table, pleasant congratulations, symbolic gifts.