The West-2025 joint exercise with Russia will be held in mid-September. This was stated by the head of the International Military Cooperation Department, Assistant to the Defence Minister for Foreign Military Policy Valery Revenko. He said that the position on the issue of inviting the OSCE participating States to these exercises is now being formed. "We are not saying no. We say that we will look at further steps to be taken by the leadership of these states and the leadership of defence departments," – stressed Valery Revenko.