{"id":1292777,"date":"2025-09-15T14:46:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russia-expanded-the-zapad-2025-exercise-zone-the-exercises-moved-closer-to-nato-borders\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T14:46:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:46:58","slug":"russia-expanded-the-zapad-2025-exercise-zone-the-exercises-moved-closer-to-nato-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russia-expanded-the-zapad-2025-exercise-zone-the-exercises-moved-closer-to-nato-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia expanded the Zapad-2025 exercise zone: the exercises moved closer to NATO borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Russia and Belarus expanded the Zapad-2025 military exercise zone, in particular, the Baltic Fleet conducted exercises in the Kaliningrad region.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svaboda.org\/a\/33530665.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was reported by<\/a> the Belarusian service of Radio Liberty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As it became known, the Russian Marines were training to counter the landing of a \u201cpotential enemy\u201d on the coast in the Kaliningrad region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, the military practiced entering combat with a hypothetical opponent, and also conducted live fire exercises with small arms and BTR-82A armored personnel carriers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For simulated training, the Russians used the Berezhok combat missile and artillery complex, which was used to destroy a naval drone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the exercises, Tu-22M3 bombers patrolled the neutral waters of the Barents Sea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is worth noting that the Russian Armed Forces recently <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/kreml-hotuie-novi-provokatsii-rosiyska-armiia-pidtiahnula-iskandery-do-kordoniv-nato\/\">deployed<\/a> an Iskander missile system on a highway in the Kaliningrad region, near the border with Poland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, on Sunday, September 14, as part of military exercises, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rosiiany-zapustyly-hiperzvukovu-raketu-tsyrkon-iaka-ii-tsil\/\">the forces of the Russian Northern Fleet launched a hypersonic Zircon missile<\/a> at a target in the Barents Sea.<\/p>\n<p> By the way, according to Lithuanian intelligence, <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> 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>Russia and Belarus expanded the Zapad-2025 military exercise zone, in particular, the Baltic Fleet conducted exercises in the Kaliningrad region. This was reported by the Belarusian service of Radio Liberty. As it became known, the Russian Marines were training to counter the landing of a \u201cpotential enemy\u201d on the coast in the Kaliningrad region. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":872285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1292777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292777","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=1292777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}