Russia’s armed forces have summoned nearly 12,000 troops for a snap drill to test their battle readiness in the country’s central military district, Russian state news agency Itar-Tass reports.
The country’s military has experienced a dramatic rise in snap military exercises in the wake of worsening relations with western neighbours and defence minister Sergey Shoigu said earlier this year that he did not plan to curb Russian military drills. Defence officials in the Baltic states have been particularly alarmed at Russia’s snap drills, while analyst Martin Hurt from Estonia’s International Centre for Defence and Security has said a snap drill turning …read more
Source: Newsweek
