Mulino (settlement), Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Mulino (Russian: Му́лино) is a rural locality (a settlement) in Volodarsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia.

[4] An important facility in the area is the Mulino training center of the Russian Ground Forces, which in September and December 2007 was the site of joint US-Russian military exercises, part of the series codenamed "Torgau" (after the city in Germany that figures in the military history of both countries).

[5][6][7] Joint exercises at Mulino were originally planned for 2006 ("Torgau-2006"),[8] but were canceled, possibly due to the protests of certain local groups against the presence of foreign military on Russian soil.

[14][15] Due to the Ukraine crisis in 2014 and Russia's participation in the conflict in Ukraine and sanctions imposed by European Union against Russia, Rheinmetall cancelled this agreement with Russian Defence Forces.

[16] The peak of the large-scale Zapad-2021 military exercises conducted by the Russian and Belarusian armies, was in Mulino.