Poland starts biggest military exercise this year

The Polish Army has started the biggest exercise this year, dubbed “Anakonda,” reports Polish Radio. It will be conducted on land and on the Baltic Sea. “[The exercise] takes on a special meaning in connection to the events in Ukraine,” Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak said at the launch ceremony. “This is the first exercise of such a scale since the conflict started.” “We want to practice a defense operation, we would like to work in the mode of NATO article 5, which talks of collective self-defense,” the minister said.