Russian Fleet in Syria – Pletenchuk told what the Russians will do with their ships – UNIAN
According to the military man, the Russian Black Sea Fleet also has no prospects in Abkhazia.
Russian ships, which are based in Syrian Tartus, may be redeployed to some African ports. Speaker of the Ukrainian Navy, Dmitry Pletenchuk, spoke about this on air at the United News telethon, commenting on the situation in Syria, where the regime of dictator Bashar al-Assad was recently overthrown. In his opinion, a very unpleasant situation has developed for the Russian Federation in Syria, which cannot be compared with Afghanistan; the Soviet army was withdrawn from there at the end of the 1980s.
According to the military man, unlike the Black Sea, in the Mediterranean there are ships with universal launchers, and there is the possibility of rotation. He emphasized that the Russian naval and air bases in Syria played…
