Russia and the United States will hold a joint military exercise next July, a spokesman for Russia’s Central Military District said.

Colonel Yaroslav Roshchupkin said the drill, dubbed Atlas Vision 2014, will be held in the Chelyabinsk Region in the Urals.

Central Military District troops will also participate in a joint command post exercise with peacekeeping forces of a regional security bloc - the Collective Security Treaty Organization - in Kyrgyzstan in July, and in a similar drill with Chinese troops in China in August.

The military district’s troops have held over 100 drills at various levels during 2013, including Russian-Chinese command post exercise Peace Mission 2013, Roshchupkin said.