Russia Carrying Out Large-Scale Black Sea Drill

About ten Russian warships and vessels of the Black Sea Fleet and aviation are carrying out military exercises, a military official of the fleet has said.

Brigades of the Caesar Kunikov, a Project 775-class landing ship, and the Azov missile cruiser are taking part, according to Capt Nikolay Voskresenskiy's statement quoted by Russia's RIA Novosti agency.

The vessels' activity includes joint manoeuvres, gunnery targeting aerial objects, and shooting unguided missiles at land targets.