{"id":136089,"date":"2025-04-28T22:48:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T19:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/136089\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:05:06","slug":"polish-defense-official-warsaw-to-respond-to-zapad-2025-exercise","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/136089\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish defense official: Warsaw to respond to Zapad-2025 exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n\n \"\"\n
\n \n
\n (Wojtek Jargi\u0142o \/ PAP)<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

April 28, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Warsaw will respond in an \u201cadequate manner\u201d to the joint Belarusian-Russian Zapad-2025 exercise scheduled for September in Belarus, Cezary Tomczyk, secretary of state at the Ministry of National Defense of Poland, has told rmf24.pl<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The official announced large-scale Polish exercises along with NATO drills and maneuvers, noting that in 2024 Poland hosted the largest NATO exercises in history, which involved about 100,000 soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 13,000 troops are expected to participate in Zapad-2025 which will be synchronized with Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) drills. Minsk notified all the Vienna Document participating states of plans to host the drill, its timeframe and troops, Valeryj Ravienka in charge of Belarus\u2019 international military cooperation department said earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly warned that Moscow may use the drill as a pretext to mass troops in Belarus for an attack on European Union countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lithuanian Foreign Minister K\u0119stutis Budrys said later that the scale of Zapad exercises has always been far larger than declared, urging NATO to respond symmetrically to an increase in the number of Russian and Belarusian troops during the drill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n
\n \"\"