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Russia and Belarus must take urgent joint steps to improve defense capabilities and military readiness in the current situation, Russian news agency said Thursday, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. Said that.
"The situation indicates the need to strengthen Allied defense capabilities, strengthen military groups' combat readiness, and take urgent joint measures into a unified regional air defense system." Interfax quoted Shoigu as telling a Belarusian correspondent. In Moscow. (Report by Reuters, edited by Guy Faulconbridge)
