Russia Held Exercises On The Border With Lithuania And Poland

The Russian Federation practiced landing troops.

A special forces unit of the Baltic Fleet has held a training exercise in the Kaliningrad Region with a parachute landing and the practice of capturing prisoners. According to the fleet's press service, the servicemen landed from a Mi-8 helicopter using the Malva and Arbalet guided parachute systems. After landing, the special forces practiced "skills of capturing prisoners, conducting reconnaissance patrols, ways of disabling communications of the conditional enemy," The Moscow Times.

The landing was carried out in groups of up to 20 people from a height of 800 meters in full combat equipment, including weapons and additional equipment. Night vision sights and copter-type drones were actively used during the exercise, the press service said.

The exercise comes amid growing concern among Western countries about Russia's military activity in the region. In the summer, the head of Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (BND) warned that Moscow could try to carry out a provocation in the Baltic states similar to the annexation of Crimea in 2014 - not through a large-scale invasion, but by covertly sending unmarked forces to seize border towns under the pretext of protecting the Russian-speaking population.

In February, Danish intelligence reported that Russia is theoretically capable of launching a large-scale war in Europe within five years. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte reiterated that assessment in June, saying Moscow could attack Alliance countries as early as five years from now. In October, General Fabien Mandon, chief of the General Staff of the French Armed Forces, said that the French army should be prepared for a possible clash with Russia in the next three to four years.

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