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Sweden raises military alert level due to Ukraine crisis
Reuters ^ | Fri Aug 29, 2014 2:16pm EDT | Reuters

Posted on 09/02/2014 1:42:05 PM PDT by WhiskeyX

(Reuters) - Sweden put its top military staff on higher alert on Friday as a result of the situation in Ukraine, the armed forces said.

It is already participating in international maneuvers in Finland, which borders Russia, and has moved its quick-response fighter jets to the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea, off Sweden's southeast coast.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: finland; russia; sweden; ukraine
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To: WhiskeyX

Git ‘em, boys!


21 posted on 09/02/2014 4:38:47 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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