In July 2015, she visited Luanda, Angola, to celebrate 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between countries. From the end of September 2015, while in eastern Mediterranean, the cruiser was charged with the air defences for the Russian aviation group based near the Syrian town of Latakia that conducted the air campaign in Syria. On 25 November 2015, after the 2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown, it was reported that "Moskva", armed with the S-300F surface-to-air missile system, would be deployed near the coastal Syria-Turkey border. In 2016, she was replaced by sister ship in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. On 22 July 2016 "Moskva" was awarded the Order of Nakhimov.