Zapad-2025 maneuvers. “At the training ground near Grodno, at the border with Poland”

The Minister of Defense of Belarus Wiktar Chrenin said that the Zapad-2025 (West-2025) exercises would be moved deep into the country. At the same time, the adviser to Minister Walery Rawenka announced maneuvers at the training ground near Grodno, at the border with Poland – Radio Swaboda said on Wednesday.

Chrenin announced that “a decision was made to reduce the parameters of the ZAPAD-2025 exercise and the transfer of main maneuvers deep into Belarus, (hereinafter) from the western borders.” The minister spoke in the capital of Kyrgyz Biszkek at a meeting of the post -Soviet system of collective security.

Rawienka, Chrenin's advisor for international cooperation, wrote on the website X that the Plan PAPAD-2025 exercise plan, “in which the number of participants was reduced almost twice” was approved in April. He accused Poland that she “expressed his intention to carry out + the largest + in recent years of divisional maneuvers.” He then added: “To justify the expectations of the Polish side, tactical exercises of the company will be organized at the training ground near Grodno.” (https://tinyurl.com/3jdv8ww8)

In January, Rawienka announced that in Belarusian-Russian exercises Zapad-2025 in September this year. 13,000 people will take part. He also said that they would be one of the biggest maneuvers in recent years. Independent media from Russia and Belarus – as well as The President of Ukraine Wołodymyr Zełenski – and assessed that participation in maneuvers could take up to 100-150 thousand. Russian and Belarusian soldiers.

Exercises of the Polish Armed Forces under the code name “Iron Defender” announced the management of the Ministry of National Defense and the Army in recent months. Deputy Prime Minister and head of the Ministry of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Monday that the 18th Mechanized Division would conduct the largest divisional exercises for years. (PAP)

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