Moscow: About 2,000 Russian reconnaissance troops have started exercises in southern Russia, Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday, a day before a summit on the Ukraine crisis in the Belarussian capital Minsk.
Interfax quoted an official at Russia`s Southern Military District, parts of which are close to Ukraine, as saying the exercises would last a month. The leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany are expected to meet in Minsk to seek an end to fighting in eastern Ukraine.
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