About 82,000 soldiers have been sent to the combat zone and the rest of the 300,000 reservists are in training, defence chief says.Russia says it has finished calling up hundreds of thousands of reservists to fight in Ukraine with more than one-quarter already deployed to the battlefield.The announcement on Friday appears to bring to a close a divisive mobilisation drive Russia's first since World War II which led to tens of thousands of men fleeing the country and gave rise to the first sustained public protests against the war.
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