RT published this video item, entitled “Russia helps clear up CAR’s villages freed from rebel control” – below is their description.
Deadly landmines in civilian areas are a widespread ongoing consequence of the Central African Republic’s almost decade-long civil war. And an RT crew accompanying local soldiers and Russian military instructors to villages freed from rebel control came face to face with that very issue.
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