NATO Nervous As Russia, Belarus Team Up For Cold-War-Style War Games
Zapad 2017 involves thousands of Russian and Belorussian troops, tanks and planes, making neighboring Ukraine and the NATO Baltic states jittery.
by Scott Neuman
Sep 14, 2017
2 minutes
Updated at 3 p.m. ET
In one of the biggest shows of military might since the end of the Cold War, Russia and Belarus are conducting joint maneuvers on NATO's doorstep, where the exercises are prompting jitters in some former Soviet satellites.
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