“More than 140 warships and support vessels, more than 60 aircraft, 1,000 units of military equipment and about 10,000 servicemen have been involved,” said Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, in a report.

Earlier it became known about the arrival of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to Syria, where he inspected the course of the exercises of the Russian Navy in the Mediterranean Sea.