Drills

Iskander missiles deployment to Kaliningrad part of drill, not secret – Russian military

The deployment of Iskander missile system to Russia’s exclave of Kaliningad close to the border with Poland is part of regular drills and was not a secret, the Russian Defense Ministry announced Saturday.

“First of all, the authors behind the fuss should know that the Iskander missile system is a mobile one,” ministry spokesman General Igor Konashenkov told journalists on Saturday.

“As part of the combat training plan, units of the [Russian] Missile Forces throughout the year improve their marching capabilities by covering great distances across the territory of the Russian Federation in various ways: by air, sea and on their own."

Konashenkov noted that Kaliningrad “is no exemption here” and that the system will be relocated to the exclave in the future “as part of the military training of the Russian armed forces.”