BALTIYSK. Aug 9 (Interfax-AVN) - A training voyage of the Baltic Fleet that is to start on August 11 will involve two submarines, 35 combat vessels and 30 auxiliary ships while the fleet's aviation of various classes will fly 50 sorties and anti- submarine aircraft 30 sorties, the fleet's press service reported on Friday.
Land and coastal forces of the Baltic Fleet will drop a landing party on a shore.
The training voyage's main topic was discussed at a Friday conference held behind closed doors in Baltiysk by Russian Navy Chief-of-Staff and Deputy Commander Admiral Viktor Kravchenko.
Military sources told Interfax-Military News Agency that Kravchenko devoted most of the time during the conference to discussing an unsatisfactory level of political work and poor state of military discipline.
"In the past 10 days alone, a sailor died at agricultural works, a private committed suicide, three sailors killed an officer. On August 3 to 4 two officers drowned in the Baltic Sea. One of them was a senior teacher at the naval department of the Baltic State Academy," a source said.