Sky News reports:
On NATO's doorstep, Russia is rehearsing for war.
It has deployed tanks, battleships and supersonic bombers for military drills with Belarus that are happening on land, at sea and in the air.
'Zapad-2025' are the allies' first joint exercises since the invasion of Ukraine, and on Sunday involved the launch of a hypersonic missile in the Barents Sea.
'War rehearsals' used to be called 'military training exercises' but when Russia does them they are war rehearsals.
Strange that the many NATO exercises, often conducted on Russia's 'doorstep' (e.g. the recent Grand Eagle 25 in Lithuania), are not classed as war rehearsals and NATO is not rehearsing for war but for 'collective defence'.
[https://www.grosswald.org/nato-exercises-2025/]
NATO conducts a rolling series of multinational exercises to sharpen collective defence across the alliance.
Go figure.