Servicemen of Russian military base deployed in Tajikistan have held an exercise in mountains of Tajikistan.

According to Yaroslav Roshchupkin, a spokesman for Russia’s Central Military District, the purpose of the exercise was to rehearse coordination and interaction in combat missions conducted in mountain areas in the night time.

The exercise reportedly involved 150 servicemen and its scenario was based on blocking and annihilating a convoy of vehicles carrying weapons and ammunition to terrorist groups.

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.