{"id":1291991,"date":"2025-09-12T13:47:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/joint-military-exercises-with-russia-zapad-2025-have-started-in-belarus\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T13:47:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:47:30","slug":"joint-military-exercises-with-russia-zapad-2025-have-started-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/joint-military-exercises-with-russia-zapad-2025-have-started-in-belarus\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint military exercises with Russia \u201cZapad-2025\u201d have started in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Ministry of Defense of Belarus announced the start of joint strategic training for the Armed Forces of Belarus and the Russian Federation &#8220;West-2025&#8221;. According to official information, it will last from September 12 to 16 at the training grounds of both countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This was reported by the Belarusian state news agency <a href=\"https:\/\/belta.by\/society\/view\/v-belarusi-nachinaetsja-sovmestnoe-strategicheskoe-uchenie-vooruzhennyh-sil-belarusi-i-rossii-zapad-736869-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">BelTA<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The purpose of the exercises is to practice joint actions of Belarusian and Russian troops in the context of ensuring the military security of the Union State and readiness to repel possible aggression,&#8221; the material says.<\/p>\n<p> \t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/poland-closes-borders-with-belarus-due-to-zapad-2025-exercises-warsaw-warns-of-provocations\/\">Poland closes borders with Belarus due to Zapad-2025 exercises: Warsaw warns of provocations<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\nIt is indicated that the exercises will focus on such key aspects of training as improving the skills of command and staff in managing troops in repelling aggression; increasing the level of interaction between command and control bodies and field military training of military personnel; and practicing joint actions to neutralize threats and stabilize the situation on the borders of the Union State.<\/p>\n<p> The news agency writes that &#8220;Zapad-20252 is a planned event, which was preceded by a series of preparatory maneuvers on the territory of both countries.<\/p>\n<p> The Zapad-2025 exercises on the territory of Belarus are being conducted at training grounds deep in the country or in its eastern regions and are said to be defensive in nature.<\/p>\n<p> By the way, a Lithuanian intelligence officer stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-navchanniakh-rosii-ta-bilorusi-bratymut-uchast-do-30-tysiach-soldat-lytovska-rozvidka-opryliudnyla-dani\/\">up to 30 thousand soldiers will take part in the joint military exercises of Russia and Belarus &#8220;West-2025&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Earlier it became known 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 planned for September. It should be noted that as part of the joint military exercises of 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>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/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>The Ministry of Defense of Belarus announced the start of joint strategic training for the Armed Forces of Belarus and the Russian Federation &#8220;West-2025&#8221;. According to official information, it will last from September 12 to 16 at the training grounds of both countries. This was reported by the Belarusian state news agency BelTA . &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1291986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873],"class_list":["post-1291991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291991","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1291986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}