The great joint military exercise of Russia and Belarus West-20125 was officially ended on Wednesday and tens of thousands of soldiers began to return to their home bases. During the maneuvers, which was personally supervised by President Vladimir Putin.
The Russian Defense Ministry announced on Wednesday that the joint exercise of the Russian and Belarusian army of the West-20125 ended and the Russian troops and coalition forces units began to return to the cities of their permanent dislocation. The Russian Defense Ministry informed about it on social networks, writes TASR.
Military operations were held during exercise at 41 training grounds
Strategic exercise West-20125 took place from 12 to 16 September in Russia and Belarus, Baltic and Barents Sea. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, military operations were held during the West-2025 exercise at 41 training grounds in Russia and Belarus.
The main phase of the exercise was held on the polygon Mulino in the Nižnonovgorod region, where Russian President Vladimir Putin also visited Tuesday. He informed that 100,000 soldiers and approximately 10,000 weapons and technology systems were involved in the exercise.
The Russian Ministry of Defense informed that, especially within the western-20125 maneuvers, flights of strategic rocket racket carriers TU-160, TU-22M3 remote bombers and MiG-31 aircraft with Kinžal hypersonic missiles were held over the Barents Sea. From Fregata Admiral Golovko, a shot with a flat track of the Calibier flight was launched and the Submarine Archangelsk in the Barents Sea also carried out training tees of hypersonic missiles Zirkon.
Exercise has triggered the increased alertness of NATO Member States
The Belarusian Ministry of Defense announced on Tuesday that the West-20125 exercise also included the planning of the use of non-strategic nuclear weapons, as well as the deployment of the Orešnik missile system.
West 2025, which was organized by Russia, has triggered an increased alert for NATO Member States. In particular, Poland, the Baltic States and other NATO countries have increased the readiness of their armed forces, strengthened the airspace monitoring and some cases activated mobile units to be able to respond quickly to possible provocations or border disturbances.
