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Wednesday, October 5, 2016
From the Liveblog of
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Russia sending 2 more warships to Syria
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleRussia says two of its warships are heading back to join its forces in the Mediterranean amid an upsurge in tensions with Washington over Syria.
The announcement comes a day after Moscow said it had dispatched its S-300 air defense missile system to its naval facility at Tartus in Syria.
The two Buyan-class corvettes — the Zelyony Dol and Serpukhov — are returning to the Mediterranean after an earlier deployment off the coast of Syria that saw them carry out missile strikes on targets in the war-ravaged country on August 19.
A spokesman for Russia’s Black Sea Fleet tells Russian news agencies that the ships left their home port in Crimea on Tuesday as part of a “planned rotation” of Moscow’s naval forces in the region.
— AFP
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