“The S-400 will function. Currently, personnel from the Turkish Armed Forces on the operation of the S-400 are undergoing training, at the end of which the planned activities will be implemented (on the use of the S-400), ”Anadolu quotes Alkar.
Earlier, Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that he had informed the President of the United States Donald Trump about the impossibility of Ankara to abandon the S-400.
In turn, the US State Department said that Turkey should get rid of the Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems, otherwise Ankara runs the risk of facing US sanctions.