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The Russian Federation continues to deploy a powerful group of its Armed Forces on the Crimean Peninsula, which as of May 2016 has reached about 24,000 servicemen, representative of the Main Directorate for Intelligence at the Defense Ministry of Ukraine Vadym Skibitsky told a briefing on May 30 in Kyiv, Ukrinform reports.

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