Strategic exercise Zapad-2017 is over.
Yuri Komarov, deputy head of the tank battalion of the 1st Tank Army (Russia): "The benefits of these exercise are huge, we have carried out combat missions and are now can go back home."
Valentin Pchelnikov, gunner of tank T-80 of the 1st Tank Army (Russia): "We were able to show our skills, we performed all the tasks we were assigned."
Prior to September 30, all the Belarusian and the Russian equipment involved in maneuvers will return to the place of permanent deployment.
