The commander of the district troops, General of the Army Alexander Dvornikov, said this in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper.
“Undoubtedly, the Southern Military District is a priority in terms of equipping with modern weapons.
Therefore, the arrival of the newest air defense systems S-500 and S-350 into service with our Air Force and Air Defense Army can also occur at any time within the framework of its retrofitting, ”TASS quotes him as saying.
According to Dvornikov, a fairly powerful air defense system has already been deployed in the south of Russia; the units of the Southern Military District are armed with modern S-400 Triumph systems and Pantsir-S complexes.
Earlier it was reported that the exercises of the Airborne Forces began in the Crimea.