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On Tuesday Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that next month Russia will hold its biggest war games since the fall of the Soviet Union. Reuters reports this will be a massive military exercise that will also involve the Chinese and Mongolian armies. Shoigu says the exercise, called Vostok-2018, will take place in central and eastern Russian military districts and involve almost 300,000 troops, more than 1,000 military aircraft, two of Russia’s naval fleets, and all of its airborne units.

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