Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu to continue the development of the Russian fleet.
According to the Kremlin press service, the head of the Russian state said at a meeting with the country’s Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu on Monday, April 17th.
The head of the defense department reported to Putin about checking the Pacific Fleet, begun on April 14 on behalf of the President.
Over 25 thousand military personnel, 167 warships and support vessels, including 12 submarines, 89 aircraft and helicopters, were involved in the audit.
“forces and troops participating in the audit are brought into full combat readiness, with established restrictions began to perform educational and combat tasks. Control and tactical exercises are carried out with them, inter-illegal interaction issues are being developed,” the minister
from April 18, the final stage of the audit will begin, during which ship shock groups, together with coastal missile divisions, will work out the tasks of applying missile strikes with electronic launches, reported Sergei Shoigu.
Upon completion of the check of the fleet, they will return to the constant deployment points, the minister added.
The head of the Russian state has attracted attention to the fact that today Russia has clear priorities of the use of the Armed Forces, and above all, this applies to the Ukrainian direction.
“But the tasks of the development of the fleet, including at the Pacific Theater, did not cancel, did not remove, and therefore I ask you this work, of course, to continue, also pay attention to the development and preparation of such events and in other fleets” – said the president.
And among other things, of course, the fleet forces in its individual components, of course, can be used in conflicts in any direction, the Kremlin press service quotes Putin.
“Therefore, I ask you to keep this in mind too. Actually, both the Ministry of Defense as a whole, and the General Staff is doing this, I know,” the president said.