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Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops near Ukraine's border taking part in military exercises to return to their permanent bases, the Kremlin said in a statement Monday, although NATO said so far it has seen no evidence of withdrawing troops.
Moscow has made similar statements before, only for NATO, Europe and Washington to dispute that any withdrawals had taken place.
'In connection with the completion of the planned spring phase of training troops ... on the ground in Rostov, Belgorod and Bryansk regions ... the Russian President gave the command to to the Minister of Defense to return the troops who took part in the exercises,' the president's office said, in a statement posted in English on its website.
However, the Reuters news agency, speaking to a NATO military office on the condition of anonymity, said: 'We haven't seen any movement to validate (the report).'
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