Zapad Exercise
- September 2, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Zapad Exercise
Subject – Security
Context – 200 Army personnel for Zapad exercise.
Concept –
- It is a multinational Exercise ZAPAD 2021 being held at Nizhniy, Russia from September 3 to 16.
- ZAPAD 2021 is one of the theatre levels exercises of Russian armed forces and will focus primarily on operations against terrorists.
- The exercise aims to enhance military and strategic ties amongst the participating nations while they plan and execute this exercise.
- In all, 17 countries have been invited by Russia for the exercise. Of these nine are Participating countries which include Mongolia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, Russia, India and Belarus. The other eight countries are Observers which include Pakistan, China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Uzbekistan and Sri Lanka.