Defense ministry has published photographic and video material of the conditions at the No. 3 Kutaisi Infantry Brigade and No. 2 Senaki Infantry Brigade bases, which the Minister Irakli Alasania visited for getting acquainted with infrastructure issues and living conditions of service members on February 12.

These soldiers are preparing themselves for a special drill -- the South Korean army's annual winter training. The 230 soldiers are members of the South Korean army's Special Forces.

Mountain Military Training School that derives from the 16th mountain batallion formed in 1991, continues special mountain training of Georgian and NATO troops designed for a winter period.
In the framework of Partnership for Peace NATO Program, 19 military officers from Georgia, Ukraine and Poland are engaged on almost one-month long special course from 20 January till 15 February. Sachkhere military instructors took the trainees to Abuli mountain in Akhalkalaki to practice shooting at 3000m above see level.

Dmitriy Rogozin: “French Mistral cannot endure Russian freeze”

Since the resignation of Anatoliy Serdiukov from his post of Russian Defense Minister last autumn almost every week we witness scandals ravaging this ministry. “French Mistrals cannot endure Russian freeze because they are designed to operate at minus 7 degrees Celsius at most,” – declared Russian Vice-PM Dmitriy Rogozin on 26 January.

Three Georgian military servicemen have been wounded in Afghanistan. Corporal Erekle Kharshiladze and Junior Sergeant Iago Kakulia were patrolling when insurgents opened fire.

In the turn of 2013, Georgian troops participating in the ISAF operation in Afghanistan stand to receive a New Year gift in the form of a lofty rise in wages for their service in the dodgiest place of the world. Whatever others may say, patriotism has its share in the driving of Georgian armed forces to spend months in Afghanistan. No less important for them is a salary and this is natural because every day they encounter lethal dangers in Afghanistan.

11-13 January, 2014 may be crucial for the 12-year long war, waged against Taliban in Afghanistan under ISAF. Right now, Afghan President Hamid Karzai is visiting Washington. He and American President Barak Obama reached a milestone agreement.

Sergeant Giorgi Kikadze, who died in the ISAF mission in Afghanistan, was buried in Rustavi, following a public burial service at the Sioni Church of the city.

'Salary of Georgian soldiers taking part in the international mission in Afghanistan will increase from the next year', advisor of the Minister of Defense Vako Avaliani stated at a briefing today.