VLADIVOSTOK. Aug 27 (Interfax) - A group of ships, a nuclear submarine cruiser, and Bastion coastal missile systems of the Pacific Fleet have held cruise missile drills in the Sea of Okhotsk, the Pacific Fleet's press service told Interfax.
"A missile strike at two drifting ship-targets with Vulkan, Granit, Malakhit, and Onyx missiles was carried out from the Sea of Okhotsk and from the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The distance to the targets ranged from 250 kilometers to 500 kilometers. According to live recording data, all seven cruise missiles successfully hit the targets," the press service said.
A group of ships including the missile-carrying cruiser Varyag, which is the Pacific Fleet's flagship, and the small-sized missile ships Razliv and Moroz, the nuclear missile submarine cruiser Tomsk, and Bastion coastal missile systems fired the missiles, it said.