BILD: Putin And Lukashenko Rehearse Nuclear War And Attack On NATO

How the exercise "West - 2025" is going on.

On September 12, the Russian-Belarusian military exercise "Zapad - 2025" began. Military columnist BILD Julian Röpke believes that the relatively small number of participating soldiers - only 18,200, including 5,500 Russians - should not mislead about the danger of the maneuvers. Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko are practicing three strategies for war with the West.

The use of nuclear weapons and medium-range missiles

The key element of the exercises is to simulate the use of nuclear weapons and Oreshnik missiles, which are scheduled to be deployed in Belarus by the end of this year. The obvious purpose of these maneuvers is to intimidate Belarus' neighbors.

"We see the situation on our western and northern borders and cannot calmly observe militarization and military activity," said Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin at the opening of the exercises.

This threat led to the immediate closure of the border with Belarus by Poland and the closure of border airspace by Lithuania. In response, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova threatened "consequences."

Attack on the Suvalki Corridor

Officially, at these exercises, Russia and Belarus are practicing "conducting defensive battles, defeating the enemy who broke through the defensive lines, and creating conditions for restoring the territorial integrity of the state." On the first day of the maneuvers, RIA reported where exactly the "defensive operation" is supposed to take place: in the Kaliningrad region, which NATO allegedly wants to seize.

To "defend" Kaliningrad, the Russian army is supposed to advance from Belarus and lay the so-called Suwalki corridor - a 60-km-wide stretch of Polish and Lithuanian territory that will connect Belarus and Kaliningrad. Russia is thus pretending that the defense of its enclave is required in order to rehearse an attack on NATO in the region.

Repression

"Zapad - 2025" also envisages "fighting illegal armed formations, as well as sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the enemy." Russian state media left no doubt as to who was meant - "agents of Poland" and "Ukrainian intelligence officers." In fact, in most cases, in Belarus "saboteurs" are not enemy agents at all, but critics of the regime, who are accused of espionage in favor of Poland or Ukraine without evidence, in order to be imprisoned.

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