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Xinhua: Russia’s Pacific Fleet ships embark on months-long mission

Published Oct. 1, 2018 at 11:14 am

Russian guided missle cruiser Varyag, the flagship of Russia's Pacific fleet, berths in a port in Shanghai on May 26, 2014, after taking part in a joint military drill with China. China and Russia started joint naval exercises off Shanghai on May 20 as their leaders promised to strengthen relations in the face of international criticism over their territorial disputes. President Xi Jinping launched the drills at a ceremony in a room lined with officers of both navies in white dress uniform, with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin looking on, state broadcaster CCTV showed.

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A group of ships from Russia’s Pacific Fleet has left Vladivostok for an Asia-Pacific mission that will last over three months, the fleet’s spokesman Nikolai Voskresensky said October 1.

“Today, a group of ships from the Pacific Fleet, consisting of the Varyag missile cruiser, the Admiral Panteleyev anti-submarine destroyer and the Boris Butoma large sea tanker, embarked from Vladivostok on a long mission in the Asia-Pacific region,” said Voskresensky.