MOSCOW—Russia will next month hold its biggest war games since the fall of the Soviet Union, a massive military exercise that will also involve the Chinese and Mongolian armies, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Aug. 28.
The exercise, called Vostok-2018 (East-2018), will take place in central and eastern Russian military districts and involve almost 300,000 troops, more than 1,000 military aircraft, two of Russia’s naval fleets, and all of its airborne units, Shoigu said in a statement.
