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#Zapad2021 🧵
1/ About 200 thousand people will take part in the strategic exercises "West-2021", stated the Russian Defense Ministry

2/ In total, up to 200 thousand personnel, about 80 aircraft and helicopters, up to 760 units of military equipment, including 290 tanks, 240 guns, multiple launch rocket systems and mortars, as well as up to 15 ships will take part at the Zapad 2021
tvzvezda.ru/news/202182018…

3/ The Russian MoD stated that the maximum number of personnel of military units involved in the exercises, falling under the Vienna Document 2011, will not exceed 6400 servicemen

4/the #Zapad2021 exercises are purely defensive in nature & are aimed at training troops in the conduct of hostilities in modern conditions & increasing the interoperability of military command & control bodies of the RF Armed Forces, Belarus, allies & friendly states, RUS MOD

5/ #Zapad2021 will take place from 10 to 19 September. In addition to the military from the Union State (RUS+Belarus), contingents & observers from some SCO and CSTO countries have been invited iz.ru/1210323/2021-0…

russian.rt.com/russia/news/89…