The crews of tactical bombers Su-24M have destroyed an "enemy" military convoy near the Volga River during tactical flight training, head of the Southern Military District Vadim Astafyev said on Friday.

"Ten crews of the Su-24 bombers of the aviation regiment stationed in the Volgograd Region have successfully performed training tasks and destroyed a group of ground targets that imitated enemy armored vehicles," Astafyev said.

Besides, the crews trained to maneuver skirting "enemy" fighters at an altitude of 200 to 1,000 meters.

The crews carried out 20 missions and about 100 launches of unguided airborne missiles and bombs during the exercise. All flight and engineer-technical personnel of the aviation regiment took part in the exercise, along with support and communication personnel.