MOSCOW – President Vladimir Putin observed Russia’s biggest war games in years on Sept.18, watching as his forces successfully repelled an imaginary enemy and launched a tank-led counter offensive, part of an exercise that has rattled the West.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (C), accompanied by Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (R), uses a pair of binoculars as he inspects the joint Zapad-2017 (West-2017) Russian military exercises with Belarus at the Luzhsky training ground in the Leningrad region on Sept. 18.
