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Large-scale drills of an air assault and an artillery regiment of the Novorossiysk Guards Airborne-Assault Mountain Division with the participation of around 2,000 troops and over 100 items of combat and special equipment kicked off in Crimea, Russia’s Defense Ministry has said.
The drills will be held at the Opuk training ground in Crimea within three days.
The units will practice defense, during which they will carry out live firing exercises using standard armament of combat equipment together with <…> anti-aircraft missile, anti-tank, flamethrower, artillery and sniper units,” the press service said. The paratroopers will conduct defense maneuvers by day and by night. In the final stage of the exercise, offensive actions are planned that will cause damage to the notional enemy with fire from T-72B3 tanks, 2S9 Nona 120mm self-propelled artillery-mortar systems, and D-30 122-mm howitzers.
