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Zapad exercise ('Exercise West') is a series of Soviet Union and Russian Federation military exercises, including: Zapad-77 (Zapad-1977) Zapad-81 (Zapad-1981) Zapad-84 (Zapad-1984) Zapad 1999; Zapad 2009; Zapad 2013; Zapad 2017; Zapad 2021
Zapad 2021 (Russian: Запад-2021,English: West 2021) was a joint strategic exercise between the armed forces of the Russian Federation and Belarus, which took place from 10 to 15 September 2021. According to the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation , approximately 200,000 military personnel, up to 760 pieces of equipment, and 15 ...
Exercise Zapad-81 (Russian: Запад-81, lit. 'West-81') was the largest military exercise ever to be carried out by the Soviet Union , according to NATO and US sources. [ 1 ] It was conducted from 4 September 1981 and lasted approximately eight days, it involved between 100,000 and 150,000 troops.
Russia scraps big Zapad military drills because of Ukraine war 17:39 , Eleanor Noyce Russia has scrapped its huge Zapad military drills this year because of the war in Ukraine, Defence Minister ...
Firing T-72 tanks during Zapad 2013. Zapad 2013 took place from 20 to 26 September in several training grounds in the Russian Federation and Belarus, including in the Arctic (Barents Sea), in the Kaliningrad enclave on the Baltic Sea and on the sea itself, as well as near the cities of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhniy Novgorod and Voronezh in central, western and southwestern Russia (Russian ...
Previous post-Soviet Zapad exercises were Zapad 1999, Zapad 2009, and Zapad 2013. The plan of the exercise was approved by Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko on 20 March 2017: it envisaged two stages and its theme was defined as "the use of groupings of troops (forces) in the interests of ensuring the military security of the Union State".
Russia is going to war on Thursday, and even though it's against a fictional country, NATO has been panicking about it for months.
Pages in category "Zapad military exercises" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...