It is an operation that includes the “air force and groups of ships from the Black and Caspian Sea fleets,” said the commander of the Russian forces in the south of the country, Alexander Dvornikov.
According to the TASS agency, 60 fighters and bombers are participating in the air force exercises in four regions, including the Crimean peninsula that Russia annexed in 2014 in retaliation for a pro-Western revolution in Ukraine.
This includes the coordination of naval and air defense action in the event of missile attacks.
In addition, some 6,000 men are taking part in exercises to check their combat readiness at bases spread across various regions of southern Russia.
The announcement of the maneuvers comes a few hours after the Kremlin denounced the alerting of thousands of US soldiers who could be deployed as part of the troops of the OTAN in the context of the crisis in Ukraine.
Russia sees it as a new “exacerbation of tensions” by Washington.
On Monday, the United States put 8,500 military personnel on alert, who could be ready in five days to support NATO’s 40,000-strong rapid reaction force. However, its deployment has not been decided.
While, the NATO alliance, led by Washington, announced that its members were putting troops “on standby” (in waiting time) and that they were also sending ships and planes to reinforce the defense of Eastern Europe.
Westerners accuse the Russian government of having concentrated more than 100,000 soldiers on the border with Ukraine, in the face of a possible invasion, after Russia seized Crimea in 2014. Moscow is also seen as supporting pro-Russian separatists with which Kiev has been at war in the east of the country for eight years.
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