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Source: People’s Republic of China in Russian – People’s Republic of China in Russian –
Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
MINSK, May 16 /Xinhua/ — The upcoming joint Belarusian-Russian military exercises “Zapad-2025” are defensive in nature. This was stated on Friday by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko at a meeting with Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov in Minsk. The corresponding information was published by the press service of the Belarusian head of state.
“I want to say that we are ready for the exercises. We are not hiding anything from anyone. We are truly demonstrating openness, that these exercises are ours and are defensive in nature. And we are not going to attack anyone, as some people think. We have made a decision at the presidential level to conduct the exercises,” A. Lukashenko noted.
During the meeting, the President of Belarus also thanked Russia for training the Belarusian military on par with the Russians. “This is very important, we value it very much. Because this is the highest level of trust. After all, this is security, defense. And here Russia does not protect itself from Belarus. Russia does not have such interaction with anyone. We value this very much,” A. Lukashenko summed up.
Joint Belarusian-Russian military exercises “West-2025” are planned to be held in mid-September of this year. –0–