“In total, over the course of the campaign, more than 10 large-scale exercises at sea and on land were conducted, the personnel of the warship squad took part in the interspecific tactical exercises for the defense of an important industrial facility in Taimyr,” RIA Novosti quoted the words of Captain 1st Rank Vadim Sergi.
In addition, the ships also took part in exercises on the defense of the island zone in the area of Severnaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land.
In August, an Arctic detachment of ships and vessels of the Northern Fleet conducted anti-terrorist exercises in the area of Novaya Zemlya.
Also, the ex-commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Admiral Igor Kasatonov, in an interview with the NSN, evaluated the data that the small reconnaissance ship Pereyaslav of the Ukrainian Navy entered the zone of the Russian Black Sea Fleet exercises.