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Putin to oversee new military drills as Ukraine crisis simmers

Moscow/Kiev, Feb 18 (EFE).- Russian president Vladimir Putin will oversee ballistic and cruise missile exercises on Saturday, amid escalating tensions between Moscow and western powers. Nato and its allies fear Russia, which has amassed nearly 150,000 troops near its borders with Ukraine, could mount an imminent invasion, although Moscow has repeatedly denied this. “On February […]