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By Zachary Keck
Russia announced its nuclear forces will conduct a drill along the border with China later this month.
Russia’s nuclear forces will hold another large-scale exercise this month along the country’s border with China.
According to Russian media outlets, on Wednesday Russia’s Defense Ministry announced that the country’s strategic missile forces (RVSN) would hold military exercises sometime in the month of September.
“There will be more than 4,000 military personnel and around 400 pieces of hardware involved in the exercises,” Maj. Dmitry Andreyev, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry’s Strategic Rocket Forces, was quoted as saying. He added that the drills would be conducted in the Altai Region of Siberia.
The exercises will be led by Colonel-General Sergei Karakayev, the commander of the RVSN, and held jointly with Barnaul-based missile troops unit. Special forces units would play the enemy in the exercises.
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