{"id":1284885,"date":"2025-08-25T17:20:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/up-to-30-000-soldiers-will-participate-in-russian-and-belarusian-exercises-lithuanian-intelligence-releases-data\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T17:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:20:24","slug":"up-to-30-000-soldiers-will-participate-in-russian-and-belarusian-exercises-lithuanian-intelligence-releases-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/up-to-30-000-soldiers-will-participate-in-russian-and-belarusian-exercises-lithuanian-intelligence-releases-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Up to 30,000 soldiers will participate in Russian and Belarusian exercises: Lithuanian intelligence releases data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Lithuanian intelligence officer said that up to 30,000 soldiers will participate in the joint military exercises of Russia and Belarus &#8220;West-2025&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delfi.lt\/ru\/news\/politics\/litovskaya-voennaya-razvedka-v-ucheniyah-zapad-v-belarusi-primut-uchastie-8-000-voennyh-120140304\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was reported by<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Delfi publication, citing Mindaugas Majonas, head of the Second Department of Operational Services of Lithuania.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAccording to our intelligence, up to 30,000 Belarusian and Russian military personnel will participate in the exercises,\u201d he informed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the same time, as the commander of military intelligence assured, only 8,000 people will be present on the territory of Belarus, 2,000 of them are Russian soldiers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The official also does not rule out that during the exercises, Russia and Belarus will use hybrid attacks against Lithuania. In particular, he suggested that the country&#8217;s airspace could be violated, and cyber incidents could also occur, but stressed that their probability is low.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The likelihood that after the Zapad exercises, Russia will try to disguise some actions against another country in the region or try to involve Belarus in a large-scale invasion of Ukraine is indeed very small,&#8221; Majonas concluded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> It was previously reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/sotni-rosiyskykh-viyskovykh-pryikhaly-do-bilorusi-na-navchannia-chy-ie-zahroza\/\">the first Russian troops are already in Belarus<\/a> , they will take part in joint exercises, the active phase of which is scheduled for September.<\/p>\n<p> It is worth noting that as part of joint military exercises between Minsk and Moscow <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rosiia-perekydaie-do-bilorusi-eshelony-tekhniky-chy-ie-zahrozy-dlia-ukrainy\/\">, the Russians transferred echelons of equipment to Belarus<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lithuanian intelligence officer said that up to 30,000 soldiers will participate in the joint military exercises of Russia and Belarus &#8220;West-2025&#8221;. This was reported by the Delfi publication, citing Mindaugas Majonas, head of the Second Department of Operational Services of Lithuania. \u201cAccording to our intelligence, up to 30,000 Belarusian and Russian military personnel will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1025513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76873,76875],"class_list":["post-1284885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1025513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}