Moscow to stage largest post-Soviet maneuver in eastern Russia

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https://www.dw.com/en/moscow-to-stage-largest-post-soviet-maneuver-in-eastern-russia/a-45260112

Moscow to stage largest post-Soviet maneuver in eastern Russia

Date 28.08.2018

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced plans for an upcoming military exercise – dubbed Vostok-2018, which translates to East 2018 – on Tuesday.

Some 300,000 troops are expected to take part in the exercise, which will run from September 11-15. In remarks carried by Russian media, Shoigu said Vostok-2018 would "in some senses [be] even bigger" than 1981 war games staged in eastern Europe during the-then Soviet era. Also taking part would be Chinese and Mongolian army units, two Russian naval fleets and over 1,000 military aircraft.

The defense minister's announcement Tuesday coincided with NATO planning for Trident Juncture 18, a western alliance maneuver centered on Norway in late October, set to involve 40,000 personnel.
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From NATO headquarters in Brussels, western spokesman Dylan White told Reuters that Russia had briefed NATO in May, when alliance ambassadors met. Russia's focus during Vostok-18 would be on "exercising large-scale conflict" and fitted a pattern of a "more assertive Russia" with a larger military budget, White said.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia needed "defense capability" to deal with an international situation he described as "quite aggressive and unfriendly."
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[democratisphere]

1. drumpf's master asserting his authoritarian authority.

Which country will be putin's next target for takeover?!