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Estonia’s defence minister has said that Russia may use large-scale military exercises to move thousands of troops permanently into Belarus later this year in a warning to Nato.

Russia and Belarus aim to hold joint war games in September that some North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies believe could number more than 100,000 troops and involve nuclear weapons training, the biggest such exercise since 2013.

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