Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana is in Moscow to go a “window-shopping” for military equipment, just days after the United States cautioned the Philippines against procuring submarines from Russia.

Arsenio Andolong, spokesman of the Department of National Defense (DND), said on Tuesday Lorenzana was set to meet his counterpart, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu, to reciprocate the latter’s visit to Manila in October last year.

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