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Next week, from September 11 to 15, Russia will host the largest military
exercise since 1981. Codenamed “Vostok (East) 2018”, it will take place in
the Russian Far East.
According to a report today in The Interpreter, a website maintained by the
Lowy Institute in Australia, the war games will involve nearly 300,000
troops, 1,000 aircraft and vessels from the Vladivostok-based Pacific Fleet
— and the Northern Fleet, which is headquartered at Olenya Bay on the coast
of the Barents Sea in European Russia. Some 900 tanks will also be
mobilized for the exercise, according to a report in the New York Times on
August 28.
China will participate for the first time in Russia’s Vostok exercises by
sending helicopters and 3,200 troops, while Mongolia will send a smaller
contingent.
The Pacific and Northern Fleets are equipped to carry nuclear weapons, which
would mean that part of the exercise is to rehearse conditions for nuclear
operations.
The Interpreter quotes Russian military analyst Vasily Kashin as saying that
China’s participation “points to an open declaration of a Russo-Chinese
military alliance.”
It is unclear who the presumed adversary would be in the upcoming war games
but it is plausible to assume they are meant to counterbalance US presence
in the Pacific, and Washington’s alliances with countries in the region, a
threat perception which Moscow would share with Beijing.
Dylan White, a spokesman for NATO at its headquarters in Brussels, told
Reuters that the focus of Vostok-2018 will be on “exercising large-scale
conflict” and fitted the pattern of a “more assertive Russia” with a
larger military budget.
Japan’s Foreign Ministry said on August 28 that Tokyo is “paying attention
” to shifts in military cooperation between China and Russia.
The Interpreter looks at it in an even broader context, calling the exercise
“a rehearsal for a large, even global war. And it would also show Moscow
the extent of its capabilities to mobilize simultaneously and rapidly over
great distances large combined forces, and even possibly joint forces with
China.” | s******r
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