Russian ships back to base after accomplishing training missions in Barents Sea - Navy

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Several ships of Russia's Northern Fleet have accomplished combat training missions in the Barents Sea and are back to base on the Kola Peninsula, the fleet's press service said.

"Watch teams were reinforced aboard the ships and support vessels at the Northern Fleet's bases and measures were taken to ensure safe anchorage amid strong wind. The readiness of on-duty rescue teams was checked," the press service said.

The hunter-killer unit consisting of the Brest and the Snezhnogorsk corvettes returned to base, it said.

"The Severomorsk destroyer and the Ivan Gren large landing ship, which drilled interaction with Kamov Ka-20 helicopters at sea, arrived in Severomorsk," the press service said.

The Alexander Otrakovsky large landing ship hid from storm in a bay on the Kola Peninsula coast, it said.