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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
Russian naval and military forces stage drills in the Black Sea and on the Crimean peninsula, in a show of force on the peninsula which was annexed by Russia last year. Diane Hodges reports.
Russian Air Force pilots practice complicated combat maneuvers with helicopters and planes near the Ukrainian border. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
At the border crossing in Vaalimaa, Finland, Russians arrive by bus or car, with many of them escaping the military mobilisation decreed by President Vladimir Putin. 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).