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Exercises of the so-called regional grouping of troops of Belarus and Russia will take place in Belarus in 2025. Source: Viktor Khrenin, Minister of Defence of Belarus, in an interview with Russian propagandists; Belaruski Hajun, a Belarusian independent military monitoring project Details: Khrenin said that the main task of the regional grouping of troops is to "ensure the military security of the Union State".
Belarus will hold joint military exercises with Russia on its territory in 2025, Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin said in an interview with Russian propagandists, the monitoring group Belarusian Hajun reported on Telegram on Feb. 22.
"They will have to decide what costs them more: to lose one or more of these A-50s or to continue to see their combat aircraft and S-400 units progressively degraded," a Ukrainian expert told Breaking Defense.
Lithuanian officials have said that there could be up to 4,500 of Wagner Group fighters in Belarus, with some of them stationed close to the Lithuanian and Polish borders.
Moscow's decision to no longer share information about its conventional armed forces could spark more crises and increase risk of nuclear escalation, an arms control expert argues.