"The anti-aircraft missile regiment of the Northern Fleet's air defense, deployed on Novaya Zemlya and equipped with new S-400 air defense systems, took up combat duty," the Northern Fleet said.

Earlier, the head of the press service of the Sevflot Vadim Serga said that the anti-aircraft missile regiment in the Arctic was rearmament with the new S-400 systems.

According to him, this allowed to increase the area of ​​controlled airspace.