2024-07-30 09:47:01
About 300 ships, including submarines, and more than 20,000 personnel are participating in the exercises in the Pacific and Arctic oceans, as well as in the Baltic and Caspian seas. soldiers. The exercises will include “more than 300 combat exercises using combat weapons,” the ministry said in a statement.
“The main objectives of the exercise are to test the actions of the naval military command at all levels, as well as the readiness of ship crews, naval aviation units and coastal forces,” it said.
Units from four of the five divisions of the Russian Navy – the Northern, Pacific and Baltic Fleets and the Caspian Sea Flotilla – are taking part in the exercise, each conducting training in their own “operational zones”.
Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, the fifth division, is involved in the offensive in Ukraine and has already suffered heavy losses in more than two years of war. Ukraine claims to have damaged or destroyed a third of Russia’s Black Sea fleet, a significant military success for Kiev.
Satellite images show Moscow has been forced to move most of its Black Sea fleet from its historic naval base in Sevastopol, on the annexed Crimean peninsula, to Novorossiysk, further east on the Russian mainland.
About 50 aircraft and more than 200 pieces of military and specialized equipment will also be used during the “several days” exercise, the ministry said.
2024-07-30 09:47:01