Russia holds navy drills in Black Sea as tensions with Ukraine grow

The Russian Defence Military has released a video showing navy drills in Black Sea as tensions with Ukraine grow.

Russia has deployed tens of thousands of its troops along the border with Ukraine, even as president Vladimir Putin and his administration have underlined that they have no such plans of takeover.

The conflict has led the US’s secretary of state and China’s Wang Yi to engage as Beijing said Russia’s “reasonable security concerns should be taken seriously”.

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