"The servicemen of the peacekeeping unit and the special forces brigade of the Central Military District returned to Russia from the Republic of Uzbekistan after the completion of the joint exercise, which took place at the Termez training ground in the Surkhandarya region," Interfax reports.
According to the ministry, about 1.5 thousand servicemen of the Armed Forces of Russia and Uzbekistan took part in the exercise.
"During the exercise, Russian and Uzbek servicemen worked out the issues of interaction in the performance of combat training tasks to ensure the territorial integrity of the states of the Central Asian region," added the Central Military District.
Earlier it was reported that four supersonic long-range bombers Tu-22M3 of the Aerospace Forces of Russia launched group bombing strikes on conditional camouflaged militant camps at a military range in Uzbekistan.