“In total, more than 300 thousand servicemen, 35 thousand units of weapons, military and special equipment were involved in the verification activities.
180 ships and boats were involved, as well as about 900 aircraft, including 15 long-range aircraft and 40 military transport aircraft, "RIA Novosti quoted Gerasimov as saying.
It is noted that the exercises took place throughout the territory of the Russian Federation.
Earlier it became known that airborne troops that took part in joint interspecific exercises with the troops of the Southern Military District on the Crimean Peninsula continue to return to their permanent deployment points.