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Def Min Confirms Creation Of 12 Units In West To Combat NATO Expansion

RUSSIA

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has confirmed that the Russian military will create 12 new units i the west of the country in repsonse to the anticipated expansion of NATO to include Finland and Sweden.

  • Shoigu also states that the 'liberation of the Luhansk People's Republic is nearing completion'. The LPR is one of the breakaway republics that form the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine alongside the so-called Donetsk People's Republic.

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