Shoigu announced the largest military exercises in the country over the past 37 years
In the Vostok-2018 exercises, which will be held from September 11 to 15, it is planned to use about 300 thousand troops and more than a thousand military aircraft and helicopters, Russian defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said at a meeting in Abakan on August 28. According to him, such maneuvers in the country have not been since 1981, since the time of the USSR. “They repeat the West 81 in some ways, but perhaps even more scale,” TASS quotes him.