Russia has begun large-scale military exercises in disputed territories on its borders.
The exercises involve over 2,000 anti-aircraft troops and 500 items of weaponry.
Russia’s Defence Ministry said the exercises were taking place in Russia’s Southern and North Caucasus Federal Districts, as well as on Russian military bases in Armenia, the Georgian separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and Ukraine’s Crimea region, which Moscow annexed last year.
Correspondents say the exercises are likely to be viewed in the West as a show of force as relations between Russia and the West are at their most strained since the Cold War because of …read more
Source: Radio Pakistan
