Shoigu personally checked the transfer of additional troops to Crimea
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, during a working trip to the troops of the Southern Military District, inspected exercises on the transfer of troops from Novorossiysk to Crimea.
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“The Logistics Support Units, in cooperation with Russian Railways and the Marine Fleet, carried out the transfer of personnel, equipment and supplies from the port of Kavkaz to the territory of Crimea. In addition, a group of ships of the Black Sea Fleet, consisting of the large landing ship (LHD) Caesar Kunikov, the diesel-electric submarine Stary Oskol, as well as minesweepers and missile cruisers trained by logistics units, moved out from the Novorossiysk naval base to the exercise area. Black Sea Fleet.
Logistics units of the Black Sea Fleet demonstrated to the minister several episodes of the exercise: loading armored vehicles and troops onto the large landing ship, loading ammunition onto a minesweeper and a submarine. The servicemen also practiced the tasks of replenishing fuel, extinguishing a fire on a ship and evacuating the wounded. In addition, during the exercises, training was conducted to “destroy” sabotage groups and repel an “underwater attack.”
Sergei Shoigu highly appreciated the actions of the logistics units, who were able to transfer significant volumes of materiel to the territory of Crimea in the shortest possible time,” reports the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
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