(Moscow) Russia began naval maneuvers in the Pacific on Tuesday, including anti-submarine exercises and exercises against air strikes, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
This announcement comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to visit North Korea on Tuesday aimed at sealing a strategic partnership between Moscow and Pyongyang, linked by the “unwavering ties of brothers in arms” according to North Korean leader Kim Jong. -A.
The maneuvers involving around 40 ships, launches and boats, as well as around twenty planes and helicopters “will last from June 18 to 28 in the waters of the Pacific, the Seas of Japan and Okhotsk”, in the Russian Far East, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
A video released by the ministry shows several ships and a submarine sailing in formation off the Sea of Japan in Vladivostok, home port of the Russian Pacific Fleet.
“At various stages, the sailors will practice anti-submarine warfare […], missile strikes against groups of ships of a conventional enemy” and “repelling attacks from aerial and naval drones” , according to the ministry.
