Russia's military actions in Ukraine have shown that Russian military-strategic exercises such as Vostok, which are scheduled to take place this year in a show in the autumn, do not support the military's ability to conduct large-scale, complex operations, UK Department of Defense analysts say..

While fierce fighting continues in southern Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said on September 1 that the military had launched the annual Vostok 22 Joint Strategic Exercise, considered the culmination of a year of military training, British intelligence says..

It has been publicly announced that 50,000 troops will take part in the exercises, but it is unlikely that more than 15,000 troops will actively participate in the exercises this year. This is about 20% of the forces that participated in the last Vostok exercise in 2018..

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On the eve it became known that in Belarus from September 8 to 14 military exercises will be held jointly with the Russian Federation and the CSTO countries. It is possible that there the military will work out the probable capture of three regions of Ukraine - Volyn, Rivne and Zhytomyr.

It should be noted that the Russian invasion of Ukraine began under the guise of military exercises in western Russia and southern Belarus..