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he towns of Svetlogorsk and
Baltiysk in the Kaliningrad region
became the field for joint NATO-
Russia emergency relief exercises
that took place within the framework of the Partnership for Peace Program on June
22-25, 2004.
The exercises aimed at improving the
joint crisis response and management
mechanism including the international
relief request and delivery procedures
in response to a terrorist attack on an oil
platform in the Baltic Sea, followed by an
oil spill and a fire resulting in numerous
casualties and an ecological disaster in the
adjacent sea area.
Colonel-General Gennady Korotkin,
Deputy Minister for Emergency Situations
of the Russian Federation, and Carsten
Fousboll, NATO Civil Emergency Planning
Department Director, commanded the
exercises.
NATO was represented by theemergency rescue and firefighting units of
the Republic of Poland and the Lithuanian
Republic. The exercises were monitored by
observers from 22 near- and far-abroad
countries.
The Kaliningrad 2004 exercise
comprised three stages. During the first
stage that took place beforehand (from
June 18 to 22), the Russian participants
including the aviation of the Ministry for
Emergency Situations prepared for an
international emergency relief operation in
the Baltic Sea area. The preparatory stage
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KALININGRAD 2004INTERNATIONALEXERCISESRafail Zakirov,Assistant Minister (Chief of Aviation), Ministry for Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant-General
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comprised work on improving command
and control over the assets of the Ministry
for Emergency Situations and other
coordinating bodies, warning (advising) the
neighboring countries, NATO, and the UN
on the nature and scope of a terrorist
attack, requesting international assistance
through NATO and the UN, border
crossing and customs control procedures
for the international participants.
The second stage (June 22) focused on
the planning of an international emergency
relief operation in the Baltic Sea.
The third (practical) stage took place on
June 23 at the Baltic Fleets Khmelevka
range where the Vyshka-1 oil platform was
situated, and involved the participation
of Russian specialists together with their
Polish and Lithuanian partners. At this stage,
the newest airborne and maritime techniques
and technologies for S&R, fire-fighting, oil
spill liquidation, coastline anti-pollutionprotection and treatment were demonstrated.
On June 24-25, within the framework
of the command and staff exercise,
a NATO-led discussion on crisismanagement and international cooperation
in terrorist-caused maritime and land
emergencies took place.
The practical part of the Kaliningrad
2004 exercise (June 23) developed as
follows. According to the scenario, a group
of international terrorists seized an oil
platform and took hostage 70 specialists.
The negotiations failed, and it was decided
to take the platform by assault. Two Su-24
frontline bombers executed a false
maneuver over the platform while the
Special Forces units commenced the
hostage rescue operation. A group of
divers and special-purpose naval infantry
men rushed in, but the terrorists managed
to blow up the platform. As a result,
a number of hostages including those
wounded fell overboard, and a large
quantity of oil spilled into the sea. A fire
broke out on the platform.
The BK-117 S&R helicopter of the
Russian Ministry for Emergency Situationswas the first to arrive to the site with
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Colonel-General Gennady Korotkin
Mobile hospitalof the Ministry for Emergency Situations
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a reconnaissance mission. Its crew was
tasked to assess the nature of demolitions,the number of casualties and oil spill
spreading direction. Then it disembarked a
group of rescuers into the water. They
immediately started rendering aid to the
casualties the dummies scattered in
the sea. Simultaneously, many boats
headed for the disaster area to take aboard
the remaining casualties and to start the oil
spill liquidation works.
It was for the first time that the
Be-200ChS amphibian, a new aircraft in
the inventory of the Russian Ministry forEmergency Situations, was practically
employed for firefighting.
The Be-200ChS appeared over
the burning platform, made a turn and
water-landed right in front of the observers
stationed onboard a special-purpose ship
of the Baltic Fleet. An inflatable boat with the
rescuers was launched through the door.
Several minutes later, having taken in
the casualties and 12 tons of water into
built-in tanks, the Be-200ChS gathered
speed and swiftly took off the water before
the amazed spectators eyes.
In a matter of seconds the mission of
extinguishing the fire on the platform was
successfully accomplished. The 12-ton
water bomb released by the Be-200ChS
exactly into the fire epicenter liquidated
virtually all of it. Special ships of the LUKoil
company and the Russian Ministry
for Emergency Situations together with
a Ka-32 firefighting helicopter equipped
with a 5-ton VSU-5 fire-bucket had to
extinguish only some isolated fire
outbreaks on the platform.
In the meantime the rescue operation
went on. A Mi-8 launched an inflatable boat
with rescuers who picked up and delivered
the casualties ashore rendering them first
aid en route. Other casualties were
rescued from the sea by a Bo-105 helicopter.
A rescuer approached the casualties and
then hoisted them up by a winch.
Some of the wounded were attended
by another rescue team that had been
dropped by the Mi-8 right onto the burning
platform.
The numerous observers representing
the NATO and EAPC countries were
genuinely delighted by the professionalism
and cohesion of pilots of the Russian
Ministry for Emergency Situations.
Simultaneously, almost all oil harvesting
and sand beach decontamination devices
were deployed ashore. Booms were
launched at sea, and collector tanks for
surface treatment and oil storage were
prepared. A group of Polish and Russian
ships collected oil in the immediate vicinity of
the platform. The spill was pumped away
and run through special filters. The applied
technologies and devices (mostly the
Russian-produced ones) left no doubt that
the ecological disaster was neutralized.
At the final stage, a mobile hospital was
deployed right on the sea shore. The
hospital with all necessary equipment
and medicaments, as well as the medics
themselves had been parachuted from an
Il-76TD freighter.
Upon completion of the practical part
of the exercises, Sergei Shoigu, Head of the
Ministry for Emergency Situations, noted the
good coordination of all rescue services
involved and the high level of accomplishing
the most complicated tasks. He recalled that
the joint Russia-NATO exercises had
already been conducted earlier, in autumn
2002 in Noginsk, a town near Moscow, and
expressed hope that such exercises would
be conducted in future.
Rescuers from all countries are one
family, and they always support one
another. We have common goals and
missions, and I dont think we have any
discords. The main thing is to share
technologies, experience and all ourachievements with our colleagues, said the
Minister.
After summing up the results on June
25, the Kaliningrad 2004 exercise was
over.
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i-8 rescuing the victims
Boat with rescuerslaunched from the Be-200ChS
Oil harvesting