The Puma-22 drills, which began last Friday, are the biggest war games this year by Central Europe's Visegrad Group (V4), a regional cooperation platform that brings together Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary, Polish state news agency PAP has reported.
Poland was being represented at the event by troops from its 18th Mechanised Division, who were exercising near the southeastern town of Nowa Dęba, according to officials.
The division’s spokesman, Maj. Przemysław Lipczyński, told reporters last week that the aim of the exercise "is to enhance the interoperability of the participating forces and to test their ability to plan, organise and execute tactical action in tandem with allies.”
Some 2,000 soldiers with around 300 pieces of military equipment were taking part in Puma-22, practicing "scenarios that draw on the lessons of the war in Ukraine," officials told reporters.
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Source: IAR, PAP