![New commander of airborne forces receives banner from Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu](https://img.sputnikimages.com/images/vol2%2Fmedia%2Foriginal%2F0000%2F0295%2F37%2F000002953779_0%3A0%3A0%3A0_1400x1000_80_10_1_VmFkaW0gU2F2aXRza2lpICMyOTUzNzc5_116%3A95_sputnik-2953779-preview_d3ea08a513a2998b31449e595ec590e6.jpg)
![New commander of airborne forces receives banner from Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu](https://img.sputnikimages.com/images/vol2%2Fmedia%2Foriginal%2F0000%2F0295%2F37%2F000002953779_0%3A0%3A0%3A0_1400x1000_80_10_1_VmFkaW0gU2F2aXRza2lpICMyOTUzNzc5_116%3A95_sputnik-2953779-preview_d3ea08a513a2998b31449e595ec590e6.jpg)
General Sergei Shoigu (center), Dfense Minister, Colonel-General Andrei Serdyukov (third left), the new commander of the airborne forces, and Colonel-General Vladimir Shamanov, the former new commander of the airborne forces, Duma deputy, seen at the banner ceremony.
- Categories: Unrest, Conflicts & War
- Location: Moscow, Russia
- Event date: 10.10.2016
- Date published: 10.10.2016
- Author: Vadim Savitskii
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 4776x3464px, 9.8Mb