The drills will
involve other Fleets within the Russian Navy.
MOSCOW, August 22.
/TASS/. A naval group of Russia’s Northern Fleet has crossed the Strait of
Gibraltar and entered the Mediterranean Sea as part of its deployment in
distant waters, the Fleet’s press office reported on Thursday.
"A group of the
Northern Fleet’s ships and support vessels led by the missile cruiser Marshal
Ustinov has entered the Mediterranean Sea through the Strait of
Gibraltar," the press office said in a statement.
The Russian sailors
will make business calls at foreign ports and conduct various drills, including
naval exercises for inter-operability with the warships of other Fleets within
the Russian Navy.
The missile cruiser
Marshal Ustinov will soon replenish fuel supplies from the medium oceanic
tanker Vyazma. The sailors will also hold anti-submarine warfare and
anti-subversion drills for the defense of a group of warships during anchorage
in an unsafe roadstead.
The missile cruiser
Marshal Ustinov left the home base of Severomorsk on July 3. Over this period,
the warship’s crew took part in Russia’s Main Naval Parade in St. Petersburg on
July 28 and in the Russian Navy’s Ocean Shield 2019 large-scale drills.
Source: ITAR-TASS
22-08-2019
