MINSK, 8 October (BelTA) – While talking to reporters after delivering a report to the head of state, State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus Aleksandr Volfovich summed up results of the Belarusian-Russian strategic army exercise Zapad 2025 and mentioned the exercise’s “bonus” effect that nobody had anticipated initially, BelTA has learned.
Aleksandr Volfovich stressed that all the matters prioritized for the duration of the exercise had been addressed and the goals had been reached. The key thing the exercise has demonstrated is a very high level of training of military personnel of Belarus and Russia.
But the exercise has also produced a slightly surprising effect that nobody had expected initially. “I am talking about the dismantling of the fakes formulated by the West about this exercise. They claimed that we were amassing forces definitely for attacking Europe, for capturing some western territories and borders. Which we a priori don’t need and the president talks about it all the time,” the official said. “Our land is sufficient for us. We love it, appreciate it, and of course we will protect it by all possible means and methods. And we know how to do it.”
“The exercise is over. Goals and steps have been addressed. The force groupings from the Russian Federation and from the Republic of Belarus have returned to their permanent stations. In other words, not a single Russian soldier, who came for the exercise, is in Belarus’ territory today,” the state secretary added.
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