Several hundred soldiers from six NATO countries took part in a joint land forces exercise in north-eastern Poland.
During the Amber Lynx 23 exercise on a military training area near Orzysz in the Warmia-Masuria province, live ammunition firing exercises were also to take place on Thursday.
This was a demonstration of the alliance’s readiness to defend NATO’s eastern flank, Polish Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak wrote on Twitter.
The training exercise was organised by the Multinational Corps North-East, currently under German Lieutenant General Jürgen-Joachim von Sandrart.
Poland’s eastern borders include the Kremlin ally Belarus and Ukraine, which has been fighting off a full-scale Russian invasion for more than a year.
Poland has been a member of the NATO defence alliance since March 1999.
(Xinhua/NAN)