October 16 sees the start of the annual 'Silver Arrow' military exercises, Latvia's largest of the year, LSM.lv reports.
Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz says the Russian-Belarussian Zapad (West) 2017 war games will stretch beyond September 20, involving the use of nuclear weapons, according to zn.ua, referring to the official's interview with TVP Info.
Ukraine has strengthened control along its state border ahead of the Russian-Belarussian military exercises Zapad 2017 (West 2017), President Petro Poroshenko said during his annual address to Parliament, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
A 57-strong contingent of the National Army of Moldova is participating in the NATO military exercise, Rapid Trident 2017, held at the International Center for Peacekeeping and Security in Ukraine’s Yavoriv Sept. 7-23, the Ministry of Defense of Moldova reported, according to Radio Svoboda.
The joint mission of the United States and Ukraine will go for an observation flight over the territory of Belarus and Russia this week, as reported by the press service of the Belarusian defense ministry.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Meshkov has called ungrounded accusations by NATO toward Russia in connection with the Russian-Belarusian joint military exercise Zapad-2017 (West-2017), RIA Novosti reports.
Russia may claim there is a threat to the security of the Russian-speaking population to justify armed aggression against Ukraine and NATO Allies during the upcoming Russian-Belarusian exercise Zapad 2017, according to Chief of the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces Gen. Viktor Muzhenko.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says joint Russian-Belarusian military exercise Zapad 2017 poses potential threats to the Ukrainian state, the president's press service reports.
A country invented as part of military exercises in Belarus has caught the imagination of locals, who have created a foreign ministry, flag, history and even its own Wikipedia page for the fictional nation, according to BBC.
The Ukrainian-American Rapid Trident-2017 joint command exercises will be held in September, press secretary of the Ukrainian defense ministry Dmytro Hutsuliak told a briefing.
Ambassador of Ukraine to Belarus Ihor Kizima said that he had attended the meeting between Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko, where the latter assured that there would not be any military aggression against Ukraine from the territory of Belarus.