The largest exercise of the Estonian Defence Forces this year, SIIL 2025, will enter the live fire phase, marking the end of the most intensive part of the exercise, during which thousands of reservists practised their wartime tasks in training battles with the rest of the exercise participants. Over the weekend, maintenance of equipment, weapons and equipment has taken place for all participants in the exercise, after which most of the reservists have been separated from their units and returned to civilian life.
“The purpose of organising the exercises is to assess the readiness of units, consolidate strengths, identify bottlenecks and eliminate them. Exercise SIIL enabled all of this, clearly showing us the high readiness of the units of the Defence Forces and the Defence League to begin performing tasks and overcome emerging obstacles,” said the Commander of the Defence Forces, Major General Andrus Merilo. “A special value of exercise SIIL 2025 was the involvement of Ukrainian drone experts and the target unit Kullisilm, which brought the latest skills and capabilities from the Ukrainian battlefields to the Estonian exercise. Läs artikel