The Russians deployed the coastal RK “Bastion” in Crimea, - Tenyukh
Simferopol, March 16 (Navigator, Evgeny Andreev) – The newest coastal missile system “Bastion” has been deployed in the Republic of Crimea
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The acting director announced this on air on the Kyiv Channel 5. Minister of Defense of Ukraine Igor Tenyukh.
He also said that there are currently 22 thousand Russian military personnel on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The Bastion missile launcher is equipped with the Yakhont/Onyx anti-ship missile. The complex is designed to destroy ships of different classes and types as part of landing formations, convoys, ship and aircraft carrier strike groups.
We would like to remind you that earlier, people's deputy from the Batkivshchyna faction, Crimean Andrei Senchenko, said that the West should send its warships to the Black Sea in order to “bring some sense” to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Russians deployed the Bastion coastal missile system in Crimea, Tenyukh said.