President Vladimir Putin on
Tuesday watched Russia's biggest military maneuvers since Soviet times,
involving 160,000 troops and about 5,000 tanks across Siberia and the
far eastern region in a massive show of the nation's resurgent military
might
Dozens of Russia's Pacific Fleet ships and 130 combat
aircraft also took part in the exercise, which began on Friday and
continue through this week. Putin watched some of the drills on Sakhalin
Island in the Pacific, where thousands of troops were ferried and
airlifted from the mainland
The maneuvers are part of recent efforts to boost the military's
mobility and combat readiness after years of post-Soviet decline, but
they have far exceeded previous drills in both numbers and territorial
scope
As part of the war games held across several time zones, some army units
deployed to areas thousands of kilometers away from their bases.
Paratroopers were flown across Russia in long-range transport planes,
and some units were ferried to Sakhalin under escort of navy ships and
fighter jets
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