Russian bases in Syria – Pletenchuk told what ships were in this territory – UNIAN
Based in Syria, the Kremlin thus had military leverage over the geopolitical situation.
The Russian Federation needs the base in Syrian Tartus to deploy there, in particular missile launchers, and to keep the entire region in suspense during the regime of dictator Bashar al-Assad, who was recently overthrown. According to the representative of the Naval Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Dmitry Pletenchuk, no one guaranteed that at any moment the aggressor would not strike targets in Syria or Africa.
“The Russian Federation kept various units on Tartus. There are also submarines there, two of which are from the Russian Black Sea Fleet; at the beginning of a full-scale war in Ukraine they were there and could not return. These are the same “Varshavyanka” (a type of submarine – UNIAN) , which…
