On September 13, Vladimir Putin will make a working trip to the Nizhny Novgorod Region, where the main stage of the Zapad 2021 joint strategic exercises of the Russian and Belarusian armed forces will take place at the Mulino training ground.
During the main stage, military units of the Russian Federation Armed Forces, in cooperation with troop contingents from the armed forces of Armenia, Belarus, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia, will repel a simulated enemy attack, conduct mobile defence operations, launch a concentrated strike and defeat an enemy formation that has penetrated defensive positions.