{"id":73233,"date":"2024-03-15T12:56:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T09:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/73233\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"belarus-to-step-up-comprehensive-drills-defense-official","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/73233\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus to step up comprehensive drills – defense official"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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March 15, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> The ongoing comprehensive combat readiness drills “will be expanded,” said Viktar Hulevi\u010d, chief of staff and first deputy defense minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 19th Detached Mechanized Brigade stationed in the Viciebsk region and several other units of the Western Operational Command are ready to join in, the defense ministry’s press office reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The drills will involve reservists, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Servicemen will be preparing weapons, military and special equipment for use, loading supplies and equipment on vehicles, traveling to designated areas and getting ready for a series of exercises which may include live-fire training, Hulevi\u010d said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lithuanian military intelligence is monitoring activities of the Belarusian military near the shared border, but currently, there are no grounds for concerns, Delfi <\/em>reported citing Lithuania’s defense ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a routine drill divided into cycles of different exercises, it noted.  Increased activities are reportedly observed at all major Belarusian firing ranges and in the airspace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Belarusian Armed Forces launched the combat-readiness drill on March 11 in response to NATO\u2019s Steadfast Defender, a multi-domain exercise, incorporating land, air, sea, cyber and space operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It involves deploying forces from North America and other parts of the Alliance to Europe. Over several months, complex multi-domain operations will be conducted across thousands of kilometers, thereby enhancing civil-military cooperation and national and collective resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exercise is strategically located in several key European countries, including Finland, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Events are taking place from late January to the end of May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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