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EU Hopeful Serbia Hosts Military Drill with Russia


Russian soldiers parachuted into open fields in western Serbia on Friday as part of an unprecedented joint military drill that has stirred controversy in the European Union candidate-country given the West-Russia standoff over Ukraine.

The one-day anti-terrorist exercise, around 50 km (30 miles) from Serbia’s border with NATO-member Croatia, illustrated the balancing-act Belgrade faces; safeguarding relations with its big-power ally while pursuing closer integration with Europe at a time of deep West-Russia tension.

Troops of the U.S. Ohio National Guard are expected to take part in exercises in southern Serbia later this month.

Friday’s exercise, a mock assault on a terrorist base planned …read more

Source: Voice of America

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