According to information RIA News, commander of the Russian Airborne Forces, Colonel-General Andrei Serdyukov announced the beginning of 20 March in the Crimea on the ground of Opuk according to the plan of combat training of the airborne troops of large-scale command-and-staff exercises with live firing, in which the Black Sea Fleet and the Air and Space Forces of Russia are additionally involved:
In the exercises involved servicemen of the Novorossiysk Airborne Assault Division (Mountain), Kamyshin and Ulan-Ude, separate assault assault brigades. In addition to our troops, part of the forces and facilities of the Black Sea Fleet and the 4 Army of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Southern Military District will participate in the maneuvers. First time in stories In the Russian army as part of the Airborne Force exercises, three of our units were simultaneously simultaneously alarmed and partially redeployed to the Crimea with standard armament and equipment. In total, more than 2,5 thousands of paratroopers and about 600 units of military equipment participate in maneuvers at the Opuk range.
The coast of Cape Opuk is the furthest range of the 810th Marine Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation Three kilometers west of the cape is an air defense force training ground. In 2001, during the exercises of the Ukrainian military, it was from this training ground that a missile was launched that accidentally shot down a Tu-154 plane of Siberia Airlines. In 2015, training of the Black Sea Marines fleet RF at the Opuk training ground were resumed.
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