A day after the British reconnaissance ship entered the Black Sea, the Russian military conducted training exercises and redeployed S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile systems.
This was reported by the press service of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The missilemen discovered, escorted and hit the attack weapons of the mock enemy.
“During the implementation of the training mission to protect the airspace of the Crimean Peninsula, the combat crews of the S-400 Triumph air defense system practiced winding down launchers and radar installations in the deployment area and relocating to new position areas. The exercise ended with the successful electronic destruction of a detected and tracked target, simulating a mock enemy’s air attack,” the fleet press service noted.
Let us remind you that on the eve of the Black Sea hydrographic ship entered British Navy HMS Echo (H87), which was not scheduled to arrive until next year. In Ukraine, this was called an act of support for “freedom of navigation in the region.”
Earlier, PolitNavigator reported that American reconnaissance drones and reconnaissance aircraft Every day they “iron” the sky over Crimea, looking out for Russian air defense systems located on the peninsula and monitoring the situation in the Kerch Strait.
Also, after the incident with the detention of Ukrainian sailors near the Kerch Strait, Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Andrei Parubiy during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called for an increase in the alliance's military presence in the Black Sea. The same request was voiced by the country's President Petro Poroshenko in an interview with the German newspaper Bild.