Poland has started the largest military exercises among those planned in the country for 2025. This is reported by RMF24.
The General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces announced the start of the Iron Defender-25 maneuvers, which are considered the most important this year. Training takes place on land, sea and in the air. About 30,000 military personnel of Poland and allied countries, as well as approximately 600 units of equipment of various types of troops, take part in them.
Maneuvers are held on training grounds in the Warmian-Masurian, Pomeranian, and Subcarpathian voivodships and beyond. The General Staff emphasized that new strike and reconnaissance platforms will be used during the training, and practical lessons learned from the Russian-Ukrainian war will be worked out.
Due to training in Poland already in the previous weeks and until the end of September, it is possible to observe more active movement of military equipment on the roads of the country. At the same time, the General Staff assured that the movement will be organized in such a way that it interferes with civilian traffic as little as possible.
This year’s Iron Defender maneuvers take place in parallel with the Russian-Belarusian exercises “Zapad-2025”, which also take place in September.
At the same time, the commander of the Lithuanian army, Raimundas Vaikshnoras, said that in connection with the approach of the joint Russian-Belarusian exercises “Zapad-2025” about 40,000 military personnel will be stationed on the territory of the Baltic states and Poland.
