From the ship to the "ball"

The Russian military placed on the Kuril Islands the latest coastal missile systems "Ball" and "Bastion". This was reported by Interfax with reference to the newspaper of the Pacific Fleet "Combat Watch".

According to the publication, on the island of Iturup, combat duty with reinforced batteries carries the division of the Bastion coastal missile system. On the island of Kunashir, the division of the Ball coastal missile system is deployed.

“To date, the connection is being prepared for the next shooting of the Bastion coastal missile system,” the newspaper notes.

On Monday, it became known that the grouping of Russian troops in the Kaliningrad special district was strengthened by the division of the Bastion coastal missile system . He is able to close the exit to the Baltic Sea from the Danish straits for enemy ships, as well as hit targets throughout Poland.

On November 15, the Bastion complexes were used by the Russian military for shelling the territory of Syria .

In June last year, Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu ordered to double the pace of military and social construction in the Kurils. On July 23, at a government meeting, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that the Kuril Islands will perform an important defensive function , so both civil and military arrangement will actively develop there. “It is necessary to combine efforts, especially since the islands have been fulfilled and will perform not only the usual function, but also the function of protecting our borders, so such attention is paid to the presence of the units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation there,” Medvedev emphasized.

On March 25, Shoigu said that in order to study the possibility of placing naval bases on the islands of the Big Kuril ridge, an expedition of the Pacific Fleet will go to this area. The minister emphasized that the military department in 2016-2020 will pay main attention to the development of military infrastructure in the Arctic zone and in the Kuril Islands.