Russian President Vladimir Putin enters a hall to attend a meeting of the V-Day celebrations in Moscow, Russia. AP PHOTO/SERGEI ILINITSKY, POOL
Massive war games to showcase military power
BY VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
The Associated Press
MOSCOW – Russia plans to station state-of-the art missiles in its westernmost Baltic exclave and deploy nuclear-capable bombers to Crimea as part of massive war games to showcase its resurgent military power amid bitter tensions with the West over Ukraine.
The Russian military exercises this week range from the Arctic to the Pacific Ocean and involve tens of thousands of troops, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday.
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