{"id":26937,"date":"2022-09-02T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=26937"},"modified":"2022-09-02T07:00:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T07:00:44","slug":"russia-starts-massive-war-games-with-china-and-other-ally-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=26937","title":{"rendered":"Russia starts massive war games with China and other ally states"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ALJAZEERA News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia has launched week-long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/8\/29\/russia-to-launch-military-drills-with-china\">military drills<\/a> involving forces from China and other nations, an exercise that shows growing defence cooperation between Moscow and Beijing as they both face tensions with the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The large-scale manoeuvres also seem to be intended to demonstrate that Russia has sufficient military might for enormous drills even as its troops are engaged in action in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Russian defence ministry said the Vostok 2022 (East 2022) exercise will be held until September 7 at seven firing ranges in Russia\u2019s Far East and the Sea of Japan, and that it involves more than 50,000 troops and 5,000 weapons units, including 140 aircraft and 60 warships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russian General Staff chief, General Valery Gerasimov, will personally oversee the drills, which will involve troops from several ex-Soviet nations, China, India, Laos, Mongolia, Nicaragua and Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"attachment_1840278\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2022-08-31T095023Z_1005214566_RC2H7W9T7EW6_RTRMADP_3_RUSSIA-MILITARY-VOSTOK.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C513\" alt=\"Participants attend a ceremony opening Vostok 2022 military exercises at a firing ground in the far eastern Primorsky region, Russia, August 31, 2022. Russian Defence Ministry\/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS- THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MANDATORY CREDIT\" class=\"wp-image-1840278\"\/><figcaption>Participants attend the Vostok 22 opening ceremony [File: Russian defence ministry via Reuters]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The defence ministry noted that the Russian and Chinese navies will \u201cpractice joint action to protect sea communications, areas of marine economic activity, and support for ground troops in littoral areas\u201d in the Sea of Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALJAZEERA News: Russia has launched week-long military drills involving forces from China and other nations, an exercise that shows growing defence cooperation between Moscow and Beijing as they both face tensions with the United States. The large-scale manoeuvres also seem to be intended to demonstrate that Russia has sufficient military might for enormous drills even as its troops are engaged in action in Ukraine. The Russian defence ministry said the Vostok 2022 (East 2022) exercise will be held until September 7 at seven firing ranges in Russia\u2019s Far East and the Sea of Japan, and that it involves more than&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26939,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26937\/revisions\/26939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}