Exercises involving 12 thousand people began in Siberia and the Volga region

“In total, more than 12 thousand servicemen and more than 3 thousand units of military equipment, including more than 20 aircraft, take part in the bilateral exercise,” Lapin quoted TASS as saying.

According to him, this is "the largest bilateral exercise of the 41st combined arms and 2d guards combined arms armies this year."

He said that the maneuvers will take place at the ranges of the Tyva Republic, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo and Orenburg regions.

Earlier, "New Sevastopol" reported that artillery units of the army corps of the Black Sea Fleet conducted live firing from multiple launch rocket systems at the Opuk interspecific training ground in the Crimea.