30.07.2012, 22:10
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26 July
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USA
Aircraft carrier ABRAHAM LINCOLN passes the Strait of Gibraltar, leaving the Mediterranean into the Atlantic Ocean, heading for Norfolk.
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28 July
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RUSSIA (Med Deployment)
Northern Fleet / Baltic Fleet ships have completed replenishment operations in the Alboran Sea and resumed transit to the Central /South Eastern Mediterranean … spend Navy Day at sea … subsequently to rendezvous with former anti-piracy task group comprised of destroyer VIZEADMIRAL KULAKOV (Northern Fleet) and tanker IVAN BUBNOV and salvage tug MB-304 (Black Sea Fleet)
MoD statement suggests Baltic Fleet tanker LENA and salvage tug SLIVA SB-921 are on return transit to home port Baltiysk
Black Sea Fleet landing ships NIKOLAI FILCHENKOV and TSESAR KUNIKOV return to home port Sevastopol after “accomplishing their missions in the Mediterranean” … have rehearsed “interaction, communication, antiaircraft, antisubmarine and other operations” together with destroyer SMETLIVIY.
(rmks: does not make much sense … looks like some – Syria-related? - plans revised on short notice)
SYRIA (related)
Russia warned that it would “not cooperate” with European Union sanctions requiring EU governments to search vessels suspected of carrying weapons into Syria
(rmks: should be no problem as long as such ships stay outside EU waters/ports)
Russian navy chief, VAdm Chirkov: … prepared to in case of emergency evacuate personnel and materiel from port of Tartus … if Russian facility there should come under attack.
In a move to bypass the UN Security Council, blocked by China and Russia, Saudi Arabia prepares draft resolution for the UN General Assembly, calling for “safe havens” to be established.
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