{"id":6187,"date":"2019-10-29T17:22:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T17:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=6187"},"modified":"2019-11-14T17:44:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T17:44:34","slug":"russia-serbia-hold-second-joint-military-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/russia-serbia-hold-second-joint-military-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia, Serbia hold second joint military exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Russia sends S-400 missile defense systems for military drill for the first time outside the country<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russia and Serbia held successive joint military exercises which included Russia\u2019s first use of its advanced S-400 missile defense system abroad.<\/p>\n<p>The joint military exercise titled &#8216;Slavic Shield 2019&#8217; demonstrates ever-growing ties between Serbia and Russia. It is the first time that Russia has used its flagship air-defense missile system, together with a Pantsir missile battery, in military drills outside the country.<\/p>\n<p>The joint Serbian-Russian exercise was held from October 23 to 29 in Serbia.<\/p>\n<p>Serbia\u2019s Defence Ministry said the exercise is aimed to simulate the \u201cuse of a joint (combat) group\u2026in defending\u2026 against enemy reconnaissance and offensive actions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApart from anti-aircraft missile systems in use in the Serbian army, missile systems that are in use by the Russian Air Force will also be used\u201d in the live-fire exercise set to run until Oct 29, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The two countries have recently also expanded intelligence cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>Serbia declared military neutrality in 2006 and joined NATO\u2019s Partnership for Peace program in 2015 and it is also an EU membership candidate.<\/p>\n<p>NATO said it &#8220;respects&#8221; Serbia&#8217;s decision to hold joint air military exercises with Russia in which the Russian S-400 and Pantsir-S air-defense missile systems are being deployed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a matter for Serbia and Russia,&#8221; the NATO statement said, adding that &#8220;Serbia is a NATO partner&#8221; and that the Balkan country has a \u201cgood and productive relationship\u201d with the Western alliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia sends S-400 missile defense systems for military drill for the first time outside the country Russia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,1],"tags":[6,325,5,20,113,326],"class_list":["post-6187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-defense","tag-exercise","tag-military","tag-russia","tag-security","tag-serbia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Russian-Paratroopers-Deployed-to-Serbia-As-Part-of-Slavic-Brotherhood-2019-Drills.png?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1BN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6190,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187\/revisions\/6190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}