Sunday, January 8 2006 12:34 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Moscow: Indian and Russian paratroopers will hold their second joint exercise in August in Russia.

"We have planned two joint exercises in 2006, with India and NATO," Commander of Russia's elite Airborne Troops Colonel General Alexander Kolmakov, said in an interview.

He said this time the joint wargames with India would be held on the Russian soil in August.

Earlier last October, Gen Kolmakov had led the Russian Airborne combat unit for the first such joint anti-terror wargames Indra-2005 with the Indian paratroopers at Mahajan range in Rajasthan.