MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia said it was ending military drills Saturday that saw over 80,000 troops mobilised from the Pacific to the Black Sea in a show of force amid tensions with the West.A senior military official said that the nationwide exercises — that included sending nuclear bombers to Crimea and ballistic missiles to Kaliningrad in the heart of Europe — would end on Saturday afternoon.President Vladimir Putin gave the order for them to start on Monday.Troops have been given the order to return to their permanent bases, Lieutenant general Andrei Kartapolov was quoted as saying by the Interfax news …read more
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