Vladimir Putin, wearing military camouflage, witnessed firsthand the joint Russian-Belarusian exercises “Zapad 2025,” held at the Mulino training range in Nizhny Novgorod.

Putin himself said that "100,000 soldiers participated in the large-scale maneuvers" in 41 training camps.

The Minsk authorities explained that during the exercises, "the planning and evaluation of the use of non-strategic nuclear weapons, as well as the evaluation and use of the Oreshnik mobile missile system" were simulated.

The Oreshniks are medium-range hypersonic ballistic missiles and, according to Moscow, are potentially armable with nuclear warheads.

(Unioneonline)

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