WORLD_ China-Russia war games underway near Japan

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

China-Russia war games underway near Japan

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, gestures while speaking to Chairman of National People’s Congress Li Zhanshu during their talks on the sideline of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. (Egor Aleyev/TASS News Agency Host Pool ... more >


By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times - Updated: 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday, September 7, 2022

NEWS AND ANALYSIS:


Large-scale Russian war games involving some 2,000 Chinese troops kicked off this week and included live-fire naval exercises near Japan.

China’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday that the main components of the war games were carried out in eastern Russia and the Sea of Japan. The naval portion in the Sea of Japan involved a Chinese destroyer, frigate and replenishment ship exercising with Russian warships. Chinese ground forces also included 300 vehicles and military equipment and 21 aircraft.

The war games, known as Vostok 2022 (“East 2022”), practiced “simulated missile attacks to the sea, artillery strikes against mock enemy’s landing force, etc.,” the ministry said in a statement.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was seen observing the exercises in what analysts say is a bid to show that the Russian military remains formidable despite its pounding by Ukrainian forces in the invasion Mr. Putin initiated in late February.

Britain’s Defense Ministry said in an intelligence update on Sept. 2 that despite the heavy fighting in Ukraine, the Russian military went ahead with the annual Vostok war games that mark the end of the military training year. But the numbers were down this year.

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