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Russia Calls Korea-U.S. Joint Drill 'Clear War Preparation' Amid Peninsula Tensions
Published 2026.03.25. 23:05:47|
By Im Hye-rin
Russia: "Joint South Korea-U.S. military exercises amid heightened Korean Peninsula tensions are clearly war preparations"
Russia has criticized the recently concluded annual Korea-U.S. combined command post exercise (CPX), Freedom Shield (FS), calling it "war preparation."
Maria Zakharova, spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said at a briefing on Friday that "the United States and South Korea conducted yet another combined military exercise from March 9 to 19 amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula," according to RIA Novosti and Reuters.
"It was officially announced as a defensive exercise, but considering the content of the maneuvers and the military equipment mobilized, this is clearly no different from war preparation," Zakharova said.
According to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Republic of Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command, approximately 18,000 troops participated in this year's FS exercise, a figure similar to last year.
North Korea, which has long reacted sensitively to Korea-U.S. joint exercises, once again issued a statement under the name of Kim Yo-jong, vice department director of the Workers' Party Central Committee, just one day after the drill began. She warned that "military force demonstrations by hostile forces near our nation's sovereign security domain could lead to consequences too horrific to imagine."
Russia has criticized the recently concluded annual Korea-U.S. combined command post exercise (CPX), Freedom Shield (FS), calling it "war preparation."
Maria Zakharova, spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said at a briefing on Friday that "the United States and South Korea conducted yet another combined military exercise from March 9 to 19 amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula," according to RIA Novosti and Reuters.
"It was officially announced as a defensive exercise, but considering the content of the maneuvers and the military equipment mobilized, this is clearly no different from war preparation," Zakharova said.
According to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Republic of Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command, approximately 18,000 troops participated in this year's FS exercise, a figure similar to last year.
North Korea, which has long reacted sensitively to Korea-U.S. joint exercises, once again issued a statement under the name of Kim Yo-jong, vice department director of the Workers' Party Central Committee, just one day after the drill began. She warned that "military force demonstrations by hostile forces near our nation's sovereign security domain could lead to consequences too horrific to imagine."
Nothing to do with fucking Russkis.
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