Russian naval force gathers off Syria in warning to West

Sunday Times

FIVE Russian landing ships carrying hundreds of marines and military vehicles are gathering in the eastern Mediterranean in a show of force said by one Russian diplomat to be aimed at deterring western intervention in Syria’s civil war.

Accompanied by combat vessels from the Black Sea and Baltic fleets, the ships are converging on the Syrian port of Tartus, where Russia maintains a military base regarded as an evacuation route for its nationals in Syria.

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