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Belarus extends military drills near Ukraine's borders

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Belarus will extend its drills until Aug. 20, according to monitoring project Belarusian Gayun. Belarus earlier announced the renewed joint military drills with Russia that were supposed to be held from Aug. 9-11 in Belarus and from Aug. 22-25 in Russia. Moscow has been using Belarus' territory to launch missiles at Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale invasion on Feb. 24.

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