ZAGREB, Aug 15(Hina) - Two Russian firefighting airplanes Beriev-200should arrive in Croatia this autumn. The planes should for nowsatisfy Croatia's needs for firefighting aircraft, Croatia's chieffirefighting commander Mladen Jurin
said last Wednesday.
ZAGREB, Aug 15(Hina) - Two Russian firefighting airplanes Beriev-200
should arrive in Croatia this autumn. The planes should for now satisfy
Croatia's needs for firefighting aircraft, Croatia's chief firefighting
commander Mladen Jurin said last Wednesday.Jurin, however, told Croatian Radio Croatia still needed several
helicopters and airtractors. He said negotiations with Russians on the supply
of another two Beriev aircraft should start in about ten days.
The two Beriev planes are worth 60 million US dollars. The making of the
planes will be financed by the Russian government which will thus settle a
part of the debt of the former Soviet Union to Croatia.