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The missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov has deployed to the Barents Sea to practice delivering strikes against a notional enemy’s surface ships during drills, the Northern Fleet’s press office reported on Tuesday.

“The cruiser’s crew will practice certain elements of the drills for delivering a missile strike against a group of a notional enemy’s surface ships and also some anti-submarine warfare missions,” the press office said in a statement.

Two minesweeping groups provided for the missile cruiser’s deployment to the sea, the press office said.

“The crews of the coastal minesweepers Yelnya, Kolomna, Yadrin, Kotelnich and Solovetsky Yunga practiced mine countermeasures support for the missile cruiser and the task of leading it behind the sweeps,” the statement says.

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