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Russia’s Defense Ministry said the missile cruiser Varyag, destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov and two cruisers from the Russian Pacific Fleet will take part in exercises in the East China Sea starting Wednesday.
Belarus served as a staging point for the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February, as thousands of Russian troops poured across the border into northern Ukraine, reaching the outskirts of Kyiv.
Russia appears to have abandoned plans to seize the Ukrainian capital, but Putin’s visit followed a flurry of activities in Belarus, including surprise combat readiness exercises announced last week and reportedly completed Monday morning.
The Kremlin has dismissed the notion that Putin intends to pressure Minsk into taking a more active role in the Ukraine war, with spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying such reports were “unfounded” and “stupid”.
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