Up to 80,000 Russian and Belarusian troops to hold war drills in February
As part of the first phase of drills which were unexpectedly announced by the Russian and Belarusian defense ministries in mid-January, huge numbers of forces were redeployed from the far-off Eastern Military District to Belarus. For the first time in its post-Soviet history, Russia has carried out such a large-scale transfer of forces across such […]