Russian Navy drills in Mediterranean ‘unrelated to Syria’

The dispatch of a Russian Navy task force to the Mediterranean Sea is part of a scheduled exercise and is not connected to the situation in Syria, General Staff chief Nikolai Makarov said on Tuesday. “We are not sending anything [to Syria],” he said. He did not say when the exercise would take place. Earlier in the day a Russian Defense Ministry source denied media reports that a group of Russian warships led by the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier would arrive at the Syrian port of Tartus

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