In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin inspects the "Zapad-2025" (West-2025) joint Russian-Belarusian military drills at a training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast on September 16, 2025. ©Valery Sharifulin / POOL / AFP
India, Iran and other Moscow allies from Asia and Africa have joined the Russia-Belarus Zapad military drills, Russian state media reported on Tuesday, citing the Kremlin.
"The coalition force includes task forces and military contingents from the armed forces of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of India and the Islamic Republic of Iran," state agency TASS quoted the Kremlin as saying.
Soldiers from Burkina Faso, Congo and Mali also took part, it added.
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