The ships of the Russian Pacific Fleet since the beginning of February have been waiting for permission to cross Bosphorus from the Turkish authorities to enter the Black Sea, but Ankara never allowed them to do this, BBC reports.
ships, in particular, the Varyag Pacific missile cruiser and the Admiral Tributs large anti -submarine ship, were seen on Sunday, November 6, in the Singapore Strait on the way to the place of their base in Vladivostok.
” See the letters “z” and “v” on pipes? This is, as in an old joke: “It didn’t come in handy.” And all because of Turkey with its straits. And 9 months were waited. There was only tired, there was nowhere to repair, The crews were wild, ”wrote Andrei Klimenko, head of the monitoring group of the Institute of Black Sea Strategic Research.
according to him,” Varangian “and” Admiral Tributs “stood in the Mediterranean Sea since February 2 and prepared for the transfer to the Black Sea to attack Ukrainian territory.