Russia and Belarus officially launched their weeklong war games on Tuesday, in a display of military muscle-flexing that has set much of Europe on edge. As the Wall Street Journal notes, the Zapad (“West”) drills began with Russian tanks moving toward Belarus, while a wary NATO keeps watch with a surveillance plane:
NATO had promised to keep a close watch on Russian military movements during the war games, known as Zapad. The plane’s deployment from its base in Germany to Riga, Latvia, was a high-profile display of its mission to reassure the Baltic states bordering Russia.The Russian and Belarusian exercises are …read more
Source: The American Interest
