'About 300' US troops arrive to train govt forces
By Agencies in Kiev and Moscow | China Daily | Updated: 2015-04-18 08:14
Russia warns the move has potential to 'destabilize' region
Several hundred US paratroopers have arrived in Ukraine to train its forces fighting rebels in the east, the US army confirmed on Friday, a move that Moscow warned could "destabilize" the war-torn ex-Soviet republic.
"Soldiers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade have been arriving over the last week," said US army spokesman Donald Wrenn.
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