MOSCOW. Feb 15 (Interfax) - Troops and hardware that took part in an exercise in Crimea are going back to base, the Southern Military District's press service said.
"Southern Military District units have accomplished their assignments during a scheduled tactical exercise at combined-arms ranges on the Crimean Peninsula and are preparing to go back to base," district spokesman Vadim Astafyev said.
"Tactical battalion groups have marched to train stations, where the loading of hardware on trains is being organized. Heavy tracked armored vehicles, such as tanks, infantry combat vehicles and self-propelled artillery systems, are being fastened onto flatcars," he said.
"The trains will bring the military vehicles and their drivers to bases, including those in the republics of Dagestan and North Ossetia," Astafyev said.