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Over 1,000 members of Russia's Airborne Troops have started a large-scale exercise in the country's Pskov region near the borders with Estonia and Latvia. 20.10.2015, Sputnik International

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Over 1,000 members of Russia's Airborne Troops have started a large-scale exercise in the country's Pskov region near the borders with Estonia and Latvia.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Over 1,000 members of Russia's Airborne Troops have started a large-scale exercise in the country's Pskov region near the borders with Estonia and Latvia, a spokesman for Russia's Defense Ministry said Tuesday.

"Around 1,200 paratroopers landed near the cities of Pskov and Ostrov," Lt. Col. Evgeny Meshkov told reporters.