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In the annexed Crimea, the second division of anti-aircraft missile systems S-400 Triumph is located, Interfax reports . He entered the fighting duty on air defense in the area of ​​Sevastopol.

“From today, the entire grouping of the Crimean contested defense has been equipped with the most modern, not knowing analogues around the world of the S-400 anti-aircraft missile system,” said Latean, the commander of the fourth army of the Air Force and Air Defense.

In August 2016, the regiment of the Air Defense regiment was adopted in the annexed Crimea , received the S-400 Triumph SPS . After conducting training firing at the Kapustin Yar training ground in the Astrakhan region, the division took up combat duty in the Feodosia area.

Triumph-400 CRS Triumph produces the Almaz-Antei concern, the system is designed to defeat strategic and tactical aircraft, ballistic missiles, hypersonic targets and other air attacks in the conditions of radio electronic and other types of opposition. S-400 is able to hit aerodynamic targets for up to 400 km, and at the range of up to 60 km - ballistic goals flying at speeds up to 4.8 km/s at altitudes from several meters to several tens of kilometers.

After the annexation of Crimea, Russia conducts a militarization of the peninsula. In June 2015, the director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for non -proliferation and control of weapons, Mikhail Ulyanov, said that Russia has the right to place nuclear weapons on its territory, including in the Crimea. "Russia, of course, has the right to place, if necessary, its nuclear weapons anywhere on its national territory, including on the Crimean peninsula," said Ulyanov.