Russian paratroopers march outside Moscow on April 20, 2011 (AFP Photo/Natalia Kolesnikova)
Moscow (AFP) - Up to 2,000 Russian soldiers took part in drills in the country's west on Wednesday as Moscow conducted an inspection of its paratrooper units in the latest show of strength likely to alarm its neighbours.
The U.S. Army plans to send 100 Abrams tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles into Eastern Europe as a deterrent to “Russian aggression.”
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung reports that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told European Commission that Putin made the threat in a recent conversation
By Justin Huggler, Berlin - 6:48PM BST 18 Sep 2014
