“More than 20 warships of the Black Sea Fleet (BSF) went to sea at the initial stage of the Kavkaz-2020 strategic command and staff exercise (SCSHU).

Ships in homogeneous and heterogeneous tactical groups entered naval combat training ranges to carry out practical actions, ”TASS said.

It is specified that the Moscow guards missile cruiser, Pytlivy patrol ship, Vyshny Volochek and Orekhovo-Zuevo small missile ships, Caesar Kunikov and Azov large landing ships and others will take part in the events.

Earlier it became known that the crew of the large anti-submarine ship (BOD) of the Northern Fleet "Vice-Admiral Kulakov", located in the Mediterranean Sea, conducted exercises to search for and track a simulated enemy submarine.