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Sep 11, 2013, Press TV
Russia’s Defense Ministry says three more warships will join the permanent junction of the Russian navy in the Mediterranean.
The ministry’s press service and information department said on Wednesday that the guard missile cruiser, Moskva, has passed through the Strait of Gibraltar and is expected to reach the region on September 17.
“The big landing ship Nikolai Filchenkov and the guard ship Smetlivy will pass through the Bosporus and Dardanelles on September 12-14 and will head to the Eastern Mediterranean, where the permanent operative junction is located,” Russia’s Interfax news agency quoted the department as saying.
On September 6, a source from the Saint Petersburg-based Central Naval Command told Interfax that Moscow deployed four more ships, including the SSV-201 Priazovye reconnaissance ship, to the eastern Mediterranean, near the Syrian coast.
Russia’s anti-submarine ship Admiral Panteleyev, the Neustrashimyy-class frigate and three landing ships, the Alexander Shabalin, the Admiral Nevelsky, and the Peresvet, are already in the eastern Mediterranean, the report revealed.
The development comes amid reports of the United States’ possible military intervention in Syria on the unsubstantiated accusation that the Syrian government was behind a recent chemical attack in Damascus.
Moscow has strongly opposed any military strike on the Arab nation and warned against any such action.
The war rhetoric against Syria first gained momentum on August 21, when the militants operating inside the Middle Eastern country and its foreign-backed opposition claimed that over a thousand people had been killed in a government chemical attack on suburban Damascus.
The Syrian government categorically rejected the accusation.
