The Zapad-2017 exercises: the information war (for now). OSW Commentary NUMBER 249 | 01.09.2017
Journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2017

The Russian-Belarusian Zapad-2017 (West-2017) exercises, scheduled for 14–20 September, have for many months been the core of an information war between Russia and NATO, in which Ukraine and Belarus have also participated. The media have presented these exercises as allegedly the biggest military undertaking carried out in recent years by the armed forces of the Russian Federation (together with its Belarusian ally) in the immediate vicinity of the borders of NATO states, which could form the ba