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Russia has launched week-long war games involving forces from China and other nations in a show of growing defence cooperation between Moscow and Beijing. The Vostok 2022 (East 2022) drills that started on Thursday came amid Russia’s all-out war in Ukraine that started on February 24 and while both Russia and China face tensions with the United States. Here are some of the details on the exercise: The Vostok 22 drills are held from Thursday until September 7 at seven firing ranges in eastern Siberia, Russia’s Far East and the Sea of Japan, according to the Russian defence ministry. The...