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Russia has redeployed troops from its bases in Central Asia to fight in Ukraine, multiple sources told RFE/RL. It comes as the Russian Army is reported to have suffered tremendous casualties in Moscow’s unprovoked war in Ukraine.
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Russia has announced it will hold joint air drills with Uzbekistan along the Central Asian nation s border with Afghanistan but has dismissed the notion that real airstrikes were being planned.
The Russian Defense Ministry stated Thursday that Su-25SM attack aircraft of the Central Military District s aviation fleet based in allied Kyrgyzstan were set to take part in joint Russian-Uzbek aerial exercises from July 30 to August 20. The ministry said that the practical part of the training event will take place at the Termez training ground in the area bordering Afghanistan.