Air defense/ Russia

S- 400 Air Defense Regiment Takes Up 

Duty in Russia's Northwest

The advanced S-400 Triumph air defense missile system division of the Russian Northern Fleet took up combat duty in country's northwest Murmansk region, the Russian Defense Ministry's press service said on Saturday.

Russian Northern Fleet air defense forces, equipped with S-300 and S-400 air defense systems, are tasked with protecting Murmansk region' strategic facilities such as industrial and energy objects, transport communications, stationing bases of defense and fleet forces, the press service said.