Russia holds military exercises near southern Kuril Islands

Russia’s Pacific Fleet conducted training missile strikes against a group of simulated enemy ships near the coast of the southern Kuril Islands, its press service said Thursday.

The exercise involved a group of Pacific Fleet surface ships, a nuclear-powered submarine and a coastal missile unit, the fleet’s press service said in a statement.

The target group was located more than 300 kilometers (186 miles) from the firing positions, the statement read.

“According to objective monitoring, all targets were successfully hit,” it noted.