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Ukraine holds military drills in Rivne, near the Belarusian border. Russia says military drills in Moscow-annexed Crimea have ended and that soldiers are returning to their garrisons, a day after it announced a first troop pullback from Ukraine's borders. IMAGES
Russian Defence ministry images show drills on the military training fields of Kuzminskiy and Kadamovskiy, near Rostov-on-Don, less than 50 kilometres from the Ukrainian border. According to the ministry, more than 2.5 thousand servicemen of the Southern Military District took part in the combat training events, about 100 T-72B3 tanks were involved. IMAGES
Ukraine FM Klimkin says his country needs "everyone to deliver on the ceasefire" while Russia's Lavrov says it is wrong of the West to blame Moscow for the crisis. Jennifer Davis reports.
Russia's ministry of defence publishes images of military drills in the Moscow region. According to the ministry, soldiers from Western military district are seen performing "combat training sessions with the involvement of tanks (...) and engineering units". IMAGES
Russia and Belarus stage military drills in the Brest region, near the Polish border, as Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko warned of a possible "war" with neighbouring countries, whom he accuses of supporting a burgeoning opposition movement. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).