ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />Russia held military drills on Wednesday (July 9) in its southern Krasnodar region not far from the border with Ukraine.<br/> <br />Infantry, anti-aircraft brigades, marines, interior and special troops participated in the exercises held at a firing field close to the town of Yeisk.<br/> <br />Troops were competing in firing from various types of weapons such as pistols, rifles, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, among others.<br/> <br />In the past months Russia held several military drills close to the Ukrainian border.<br/> <br />The latest drills came days after Ukrainian government forces pushed pro-Russian rebels out of a stronghold in Slaviansk. From there the heavily armed separatists have dug in in Donetsk, a city of 900,000 people, and remain active in and around Luhansk on the Russian border.<br/> <br />In the three-month conflict against separatists in the Russian-speaking eastern regions of Ukraine more than 200 government troops have been killed as well as
