The Belarusian Defense Ministry noted the defensive nature of the Zapad-2025 exercises

During the Zapad-2025 exercises, purely defensive actions are being practiced. This was announced on September 14 by the Deputy Minister of Defense of Belarus, Major General Alexander Naumenko.

"As part of the exercise, issues of planning and practical fulfillment of tasks by troops (forces) in conducting purely defensive actions are being worked out," the Telegram channel of the republic's Ministry of Defense quotes him as saying.

Naumenko added that the results of the exercises showed full cooperation at all levels, "from strategic to tactical."

The union is indestructible: what Russia and Belarus will work out at the Zapad-2025 exercises

The maneuvers will take place at the training grounds of both countries, as well as in the waters of the Baltic and Barents Seas.

On September 12, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the start of the Zapad-2025 exercises to counter air attacks by a simulated enemy, in which Russian and Belarusian servicemen are taking part in the Baltic Sea.

The next day, on September 13, crews of long-range Tu-22M3 bombers of the Russian Aerospace Forces launched an air strike with practical bombing, destroying objects at one of the ranges during a joint strategic exercise. It was noted that then the pilots of long-range aviation staged an episode of an airstrike on a simulated enemy.

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