{"id":62771,"date":"2025-09-10T13:40:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=62771"},"modified":"2025-09-10T13:40:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:10:37","slug":"exercise-zapad-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/exercise-zapad-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise ZAPAD 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Exercise ZAPAD<\/b> <b>Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An Indian Armed Forces contingent departed for the Mulino Training Ground, Nizhniy, Russia, to participate in the exercise ZAPAD 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Exercise ZAPAD<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>multilateral joint military exercise.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Participating forces from India:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Indian contingent consists of 65 personnel, including 57 from the <\/span><b>Army<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, seven from <\/span><b>the Air Force<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and one <\/span><b>from the Navy.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Aim:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This exercise is aimed at <\/span><b>enhancing military cooperation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, improving interoperability, and providing a platform for participating armies to <\/span><b>exchange tactics, techniques and procedures<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the domains of conventional warfare and <\/span><b>counter-terrorism operations.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Focus area:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It will focus on joint <\/span><b>company level operations<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in <\/span><b>open and plain terrain,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> wherein troops will undertake missions ranging from joint planning, tactical drills, and special arms skills.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will offer a valuable opportunity to <\/span><b>hone joint operational capabilities<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, integrate emerging technologies, and operate in a multinational combat environment.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Significance:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It will further strengthen defence cooperation and foster camaraderie between India and Russia, thereby reinforcing the spirit of collaboration and mutual trust.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2164916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PIB<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exercise ZAPAD is a multilateral joint military exercise. Read more about Exercise ZAPAD 2025, Focus Area, Significance, Latest News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":62789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2598],"class_list":{"0":"post-62771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-exercise-zapad","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}