Nicholas J. Myers, National Interest: Russian 'Massive' Vostok-2018 Military Exercise: Not So Massive After All?
Did Moscow inflate the numbers?
On August 20, 2018, Chinese fighters of the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) landed at Shagol Air Base in Chelyabinsk, Russia. They were coming to participate in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) anti-terrorist exercise “Peace Mission-2018” that was supposed to be famous for being the first joint exercise between India and Pakistan. However, the SCO exercise faded into obscurity almost immediately as that same day Russia announced sixteen snap exercises across the Central and Eastern Military Districts (including Chelyabinsk) as a prologue to Vostok-2018.
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WNU Editor: The numbers outlined by the above post do make sense. 300,000 Russian soldiers were not involved in this exercise .... the real number is probably around 75,000. But it was still a massive exercise.
