Putin Arrives in Nizhny Novgorod to Attend Zapad-2021 Drills

Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in the Nizhny Novgorod region to attend the main stage of the Zapad-2021 Russian-Belarusian joint strategic drills at the Mulino testing ground. During the main stage of the exercises, Russian army units, jointly with military contingents from Armenia, Belarus, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Mongolia will drill joint actions to repel an enemy offensive, to conduct flexible defense, to deliver targeted fire attack and crush the enemy.  The drills are held on a vast territory spanning from the Baltic coastline in the westernmost Kaliningrad region to firing ranges in the Voronezh and Nizhny Novgorod…