Russia will withdraw a further 150 peacekeepers from Bosnia starting on July 1, scaling down its contingent to 900 men, an unnamed source at Russian armed forces' general staff told Itar-Tass news agency on Thursday.
Some 1,600 Russian troops were initially deployed in Bosnia in 1996 as part of international peacekeeping force formed under the Dayton accord, which ended a bloody civil war which tore Yugoslavia apart in the early 1990s.
About 3,000 Russian troops also form part of KFOR, a 38,000-strong NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo, a mainly ethnic Albanian province of Yugoslavia -- MOSCOW (Reuters)
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