"As part of the joint strategic exercise Zapad-2025, the ships of the Arctic expeditionary group of the Northern Fleet have completed a number of tasks to counter the landing force of a simulated enemy with missile and artillery firing in the waters of the Northern Sea Route," the report said.
After receiving the task of defeating the enemy's naval group, a Ka-27 naval helicopter was lifted from the Severomorsk large anti-submarine ship to carry out aerial reconnaissance, clarify the location of the enemy's landing troops and issue a target designation to the ship, the ministry added.