The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu inspected the remote Arctic garrisons of the Northern Fleet (SF), the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports.
“The head of the Russian military department checked the organization of official activities and the fulfillment of tasks for the purpose of special units and units deployed on the New Land archipelago, including the readiness for the protection and defense of especially important objects,” the department said.
In addition, the department noted that Shoigu, along with the head of Rosatom, Alexei Likhachev, took over the objects of the Central training ground of the Russian Federation.
The head of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation instructed the readiness of social infrastructure objects in the village of Belushya Lip of the New Earth Archipelago.
The Russian military department also reported that a detachment of the Northern Fleet warships as part of the Vice Admiral Kulakov large anti-submarine ship, a large landing ship Alexander Otrokovsky, Altai rescue tug and tanker, Sergey Osipov, left the main The bases of the Northern Fleet – the city of Severomorsk – to solve problems in the Arctic zone of the Arctic Ocean.