Various news agencies report a fire broke out Thursday on Russia’s sole aircraft carrier as it stood alongside for repairs in an Arctic shipyard, with at least one worker reported missing.
MOSCOW (AP) – Russia’s only aircraft carrier was damaged in a dock accident Tuesday that left one person missing and four injured, officials said. A floating dock sank early morning in Murmansk, dropping a crane on the deck of the
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Russia’s military on Friday said it has begun scaling back its deployment to Syria, with Moscow’s sole aircraft carrier ordered to leave the conflict zone first.
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The Russian Navy’s aircraft carrier group centered around the Admiral Kuznetsov is now cruising off the coast of Syria and has begun flight drills with its on-board compliment of Mig-29K and Sukhoi Su-33 fighters.
The IDF is in a panic about the Russian military’s presence and deployment of sophisticated weaponry in the region, Israel’s Channel 2 reported on Sunday.
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Russian warships heading for Syria could be used to target civilians in the besieged city of Aleppo, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned on Tuesday, calling on Moscow to implement a lasting ceasefire.
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Russia has announced it is sending its only aircraft carrier to waters off Syria’s coast, as diplomats met at the United Nations in an effort to revive Syria’s failing ceasefire.
Russia on Thursday moved it’s largest Soviet era aircraft carrier, The Admiral Kuznetsov, from its current location off the coast of northern Syria to a new home in the Mediterranean Sea.
