A week after 19 Russian drones entered Polish airspace, Russia and Belarus have conducted a military exercise to rehearse ‘a defensive scenario against an imagined western invasion’.
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During the ‘Zapad-2025’ military drills, fighter jets roared overhead, tanks shelled mock wooden houses and drones struck targets, before troops stormed in to raise the Russian and Belarusian flags over a ‘liberated’ village in Belarus
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