An exercise for combat engineers of the Russian military base deployed in Tajikistan was conducted on April 6, according to the press service of the Russian Central Military District.

The exercise scenario was based on terrorists mining the road along which a convoy of truck was supposed to carry humanitarian aid to one of mountain villages.

The combat engineers demined the road and destroyed the arms and explosive warehouse of maneuver enemy, the press service said.  

The Russian military base deployed in Tajikistan is Russia's largest non-naval military facility outside the country.  It was officially opened in Tajikistan in 2004 under a previous agreement, which was signed in 1993, and hosts Russia’s largest military contingent deployed abroad.

A total of some 7,000 Russian troops are now stationed at two military facilities collectively known as the 201st military base - in Dushanbe and Qurghon Teppa, some 100 kilometers from Dushanbe.