Russian warships getting closer
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Three Russian warships crossed Turkey’s Bosphorus Strait yesterday en route to the eastern Mediterranean, near the Syrian coast, amid concern in the region over potential US-led strikes.
The SSV-201 intelligence ship Priazovye, accompanied by landing ships Minsk and Novocherkassk passed through the strait separating Asia from Europe.
The Priazovye started its voyage from its home port of Sevastopol in Ukraine on Sunday “to the appointed region of military service in the eastern Mediterranean,” a military official told the Interfax news agency.
Russia has kept a constant presence of around four warships in the eastern Mediterranean in the Syrian crisis, rotating them every few months. It also has a naval base in the Syrian port of Tartus whose origins date back to Moscow’s close relationship with Damascus under the Soviet Union.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that any US Congress approval for a military strike against Syria without UN consensus would be an aggression.
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