BORISOVSKY TRAINING GROUND, Belarus and LONDON -- Russia put on a display of firepower as part of its major military exercises in Belarus on Monday, with neighboring NATO nations on alert amid some of the highest tensions in Europe since Moscow began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Around 7,000 troops are taking part in the exercises, which are being held at locations in Belarus, as well as in Russia's Kaliningrad Baltic exclave and in the Baltic and Barents seas. On a firing range ringed by forest at the Borisovsky Training Ground in central Belarus, ABC News and other media watched Russian and Belarusian aircraft, helicopters, tanks and artillery unleash barrages as part of a mock battle against fictitious Western forces. Warplanes dropped powerful bombs, sending smo
Russia holds major war games in Belarus amid NATO tensions

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