In a press conference regarding the 2008 South Ossetia War, Russian defence ministry spokesperson Anatoliy Nogovitsyn speculated about the use of the Tor missile system by Georgia against attacking Russian aircraft.
Russia's Armed Forces stepped up their combat in the area using the latest anti-missile system 'Tor-M2U' in the Kuril Islands, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported on 24.09.2015.