MOSCOW: Russia will deploy its most advanced S-400 air defense systems to the annexed Crimea peninsula in August, a military official said Friday.
Russia is currently using its older S-300 systems on the peninsula it annexed from Ukraine in March 2014 in a move condemned by the West that led to the imposition of US and EU sanctions.
“In August 2016 the (S-400) systems are expected to be unloaded in Feodosia where they will be permanently located,” Yevgeny Oleinikov, deputy commander of the Russian army’s 18th surface-to-air missile regiment, told RIA Novosti state news agency, referring to an eastern Crimean town.
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Source: The Manila Times
