In show of muscle, Russia conducts military exercise

You flex your muscles and I’ll flex mine. Or so it seems to go in international relations these days.

 

Russia has deployed 12,000 troops along with numerous aircraft and weapons in a surprise military exercise in the country’s northwest — a show of strength that may be a response to a long-planned European military exercise led by Norway.

 

The Russian news agency Tass, quoting the country’s defense ministry, reported Monday that the exercise involves as many as 250 combat planes and helicopters and 689 units of “various weapons and military equipment.”

 

Cruise missiles will be aimed at an “imaginary enemy,” the report said.

 

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