Airborne Troops to Conduct Combat Training at Kuril Islands: Russian Defense Ministry

MOSCOW, September 12 (RIA Novosti) - A number of airborne units from Russia's Eastern Military District will carry out combat readiness drills on the Kuril Islands, Russia's Defense Ministry informed on Friday.

"The command of the Russian Airborne Troops plans to transfer a number of airborne units to training areas near the city of Anadyr [Chukotka region], to the island of Sakhalin and to the Kuril Islands during the next few days," the ministry wrote in a statement.

Paratroopers from Ulan-Ude and Ussuriysk will for the first time travel to training areas located over 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles) from their place of deployment, the ministry informed.