• including: Zapad-77 [ru] (Zapad-1977) Zapad-81 (Zapad-1981) Zapad-84 (Zapad-1984) Zapad 1999 Zapad 2009 Zapad 2013 Zapad 2017 Zapad 2021 Zapad 2023 Zapad 2025...
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    Zapad 2021 (Russian: Запад-2021,English: West 2021) was a joint strategic exercise between the armed forces of the Russian Federation and Belarus, which...
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  • Far East, including the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk) from September 1 to September 7, 2022. List of Zapad exercises Radyuhin, Vladimir. "Large...
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    Suwałki Gap (category Military history of Poland)
    concentration of firepower on both sides. Several military drills, including Zapad 2017, Zapad 2021 and the Union Resolve 2022 exercises in Belarus and...
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    the employment of military resources in training for military operations. Military exercises are conducted to explore the effects of warfare or test...
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    51st Guards Artillery Brigade (category Brigades of Belarus)
    the exercises Vesna-75, Berezina, Zapad-81, and Osen-88. On 30 December 1988, for its skills shown in exercises, the division received the Ministry of Defence...
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    more advanced than U.S. officials realized." During the Zapad 2021 joint strategic exercise, most of the gear comprised novel Chinese arms such as the KJ-500...
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    agreement with the Russian armed forces. The peak of the large-scale Zapad-2021 military exercises conducted by the Russian and Belarusian armies, was...
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  • 1997 Russian military reform (category 20th-century military history of Russia)
    (kontraktniki) was frozen. Exercises and military training effectively ceased. The concept of the military organization of the Russian Federation, its...
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    oversaw the advancement of joint Russian and Belarusian military relations during the military drills that were part of the Zapad 2017 exercise. In August...
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    Gennady Zhidko (category Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List)
    Guards Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District with headquarters in Samara. During the Zapad-2017 military exercises, the army units were quickly...
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  • Russo-Belarusian Zapad 2017 exercise. Supports Veyshnoria in its struggle for independence. The territory of Lubenia corresponds to that of Poland's Podlaskie...
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    Russian Navy (redirect from Navy of Russia)
    Russia organises a central military exercise for September each year. During Zapad 2021, in Northern Fleet two surface groups were active: Admiral Ushakov...
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    must display complete obduracy". (See Proxy war) Russia and Belarus began Zapad 2021, a 200,000-troop exercise held every four years. The Pripyat marshes...
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  • following a speed sensor failure while participating in the Zapad ("West") military exercises. It ran off the runway, losing a wing, in Shaykovka, Kaluga...
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    buildup by Russia close to Ukraine in preparations for the Zapad Exercises. The buildup consisted of 28 Russian battalion tactical groups (BTGs) situated primarily...
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  • blízko / Niekoľko faktov pre tých, ktorí veria, že Západ prekazil mier na Ukrajine" [The view of a diplomat who was close / A few facts for those who...
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  • Andrei Simonov (category Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia alumni)
    warfare troops conduct unique exercises]. Archived from the original on 19 January 2021. Retrieved 1 May 2022. "A number of regular personnel appointments...
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    active part in the Russian-Belarusian exercises "Zapad 2009 exercise", where they worked on the interception of air targets. In addition, combat shooting...
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  • In September 2017, about the Russian Zapad military exercise in Belarus, he said that "previous Russian exercises on this scale have prepositioned troops...
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  • Second Cold War (category CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list)
    (21 September 2017). "ANALYSIS: Strategic findings from the 'Zapad 2017' military exercises: Russia is constructing strategic "circuit breaker" in its neo-Cold...
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    Jens Stoltenberg (category Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 1st Class)
    Stoltenberg warned that Russia has used big military exercises, including Zapad 2017 exercise in Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast and Belarus, "as a disguise...
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    September 28, 2020. Retrieved October 1, 2020. "Northern Fleet exercises in parallel with Zapad-2021". Archived from the original on 2021-09-21. Retrieved...
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    the upcoming Russia's/Belarus′ Zapad 2017 exercise, and NATO's Exercise Trident Javelin 2017, respectively. At the end of August 2017, NATO declared that...
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    Western Military District (category CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list)
    and the 200th Motor Rifle Brigade. In the September Zapad 2017 exercise, a significant portion of troops from the Western Military District numbering...
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  • local policemen and soldiers. Later reports said five soldiers of the battalion Zapad were killed and three policemen wounded in the incident involving...
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    2022 Zagreb Tu-141 crash (category Spillover of the Russian invasion of Ukraine)
    who dispatched multiple fighter-jets to Croatia days later for joint exercises. The Tupolev Tu-141 "Strizh" is a Soviet-era unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)...
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    Universal jurisdiction investigations of war crimes in Ukraine Proposed no-fly zone in the Russian invasion of Ukraine Zapad 2021 Union Resolve 2022 European...
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    383rd Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Brigade (Ukraine) (category Military units and formations of Ukraine in the Russian invasion of Ukraine)
    patrols throughout Ukraine starting from Spring 2021 and took part in Zapad 2021 exercises in April 2021. On 9 April 2021, Bayraktar TB2 carried out reconnaissance...
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    7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division (category Military units and formations of Russia in the Russian invasion of Ukraine)
    the loss of all aboard. The division was involved in many major exercises and maneuvers, such as "Shield-76", "Neman", "West-81" (Exercise Zapad-81), "West-84"...
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