{"id":37540,"date":"2013-09-26T21:59:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T17:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=37540"},"modified":"2013-09-26T21:59:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T17:59:43","slug":"russia-belarus-hold-joint-war-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=37540","title":{"rendered":"Russia, Belarus Hold Joint War Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/lukashenko-putin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-37538\" alt=\"lukashenko-putin\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/lukashenko-putin.jpg\" width=\"281\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/lukashenko-putin.jpg 281w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/lukashenko-putin-255x300.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart have watched a massive joint military exercise of the two ex-Soviet neighbors that involved more than 22,000 troops.<\/p>\n<p>The West 2013 exercise conducted Thursday near the city of Grodno in western Belarus and in Russia&#8217;s westernmost Kaliningrad region also involved more than 500 armored vehicles and about 90 aircraft along with ships of Russia&#8217;s Black Sea Fleet.<\/p>\n<p>The two armies have regularly conducted joint maneuvers, Thursday&#8217;s exercise being the biggest so far.<\/p>\n<p>Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attended the exercise along with his nine-year old son, who donned full combat fatigues.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart have watched a massive joint military exercise&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":37538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,149,137],"tags":[2388,13843],"class_list":["post-37540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-russia","category-world","tag-belarus","tag-russia","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}