Analyst comments on large-scale Russian military exercise

(13 Sep 2018) A Russian military analyst says the war games under way in eastern Siberia are "basically aimed at the United States and its allies."
The weeklong Vostok (East) 2018 manoeuvres span vast expanses of Siberia and the Far East, the Arctic and the Pacific Oceans and are billed as the biggest war games Russia has ever had.
They involve nearly 300,000 Russian troops along with 1,000 Russian aircraft and 36,000 tanks and other combat vehicles.
More than 3,000 Chinese troops have joined the Russian military in the maneuvers aimed to showcase burgeoning military ties between Moscow and Beijing amid their tensions with the US.
Russian military analyst Pavel Felgenhauer told the Associated Press that the political ties between Russia and China are becoming "very close."
"Militarily they are acting together as brothers-in-arms in military games that are basically aimed at the United States and its allies," he said.
He said the Russian military are testing their ability to deploy large groups of men with heavy equipment to see if they're able to fight a "very sizeable regional war."
The Chinese media have described the People's Liberation Army involvement in the drills as the country's largest-ever dispatch of forces abroad for war games.

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