Russian warships take to the Black Sea

Warships of Russia's Black Sea Fleet left the port of Sevastopol to conduct artillery exercises, the  Novy Sevastopol newspaper reports with reference to the information department of the fleet. The frigate Admiral Makarov, small missile ships Graivoron and Vyshny Volochek, the air-cushion missile ship Samum, the Ivan Golubetsv minesweeper, as well as large landing ships took to the sea. They conducted exercises "to overcome a conventional minefield in maintaining mine-sweeping forces of the fleet." The crews will conduct single and joint firing exercises at surface and air targets. Naval target shields will play the role of the conditional enemy.