: :inin Kyiv (EET)

Multinational Exercises Start in W. Ukraine


A military exercise involving Ukrainian and U.S. forces, along with troops from more than a dozen other countries, opened Monday in western Ukraine, as fighting between government troops and Russia-backed rebels escalated in eastern Ukraine, despite a cease-fire.

About 1,800 troops from 18 countries (Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Canada, Estonia, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Turkey and the U.S.), most NATO members or partners, are participating in the Rapid Trident 2015 exercise, which is being held in the Lviv region near Ukraine’s border with Poland.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry released a statement Monday denouncing the …read more

Source: Voice of America

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