If the front is not fired, this does not mean that there are no active actions there. The second half of September may become a very difficult, dangerous and tense period of the war, when Russia will conduct exercises, in particular, at the borders of Ukraine. About why no one pays attention and talks about the most dangerous exercises, "Military expert" Aleksey Arestovich told the "Apostrophe".

There is no calm now - a period of extremely intensive Russian exercises is taking place on the territory of the Russian Federation and its satellites - Abkhazia and South Ossetia, as well as Belarus. Part of these exercises takes place directly at the borders of Ukraine. The fact is that military activity is reduced not only to the fact that they shoot. And the main function of the army is not a successful war, but the prevention of war. Our army is now actively working to protect Ukraine from the Russian offensive from new directions. This is a huge, hard work that is not visible to civilians.

These are exercises, organizational and mobilization measures: the call of reservists and the alignment of the grouping of troops. For example, there is one brigade at the "Wide Lan" training ground (Mykolayiv region), and here three brigades came at once - they conduct exercises. This is a huge army work, complex events that are not visible. All civilians think that the army does nothing for days on end, and then fights every 50 years. This is completely wrong. Even in peacetime, painstaking work is underway - and so throughout the world.

For example, when the French army conducts exercises, the Swiss army is put on high alert and builds up its units in such a way as to protect the borders of Switzerland. It would seem that the country is 300 years neutral, and everyone forgot about it militarily.

For the military now is a period of exacerbation, not relaxation. And the fact that they do not shoot does not mean that there is no exacerbation. Now everyone answers with the teachings for the teachings. In Poland, there have been recent teachings. NATO exercises are now being conducted in Georgia, just during the visit of [Russian President Vladimir] Putin to Abkhazia. On the Russian exercises, neighboring countries respond with their teachings.

Important exercises such as "West-2017" (on the territory of Belarus, "Apostrophe"), which will be held on September 14-20 in Belarus, and the exercise "Combat Brotherhood-2017", which will take place immediately after the "West-2017" (in End of September, - "Apostrophe"). About these exercises, few people say, but there is an opinion that the main issues of the offensive to Ukraine, the Baltic countries or Poland will be worked out during the "Battle Brotherhood", when all relax and exhale. Because the main focus shifts to "West-2017", and everyone forgets about the "Battle Brotherhood", and it does not go anywhere. Attention is managed through available means - diplomacy, the media, and the layman can not track which exercises were earlier, and which later.