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Russian military denies report of troop deployment to border with Ukraine

MOSCOW, January 30. /TASS/. Russia's military has denied a media report that servicemen from the 201st Russian base in the republic of Tajikistan are being deployed to the border with Ukraine.

Central Military District spokesman Yaroslav Roshchupkin refuted a claim that some 3,000 Russian troops were being sent. "The information is concocted and is not true," he told TASS on Friday.