Kapal Pemusnah Rusia memasuki timur Mediterranean untuk mengetuai pasukan petugas - laporan

TERKINI LIVE RT pada krisis ‘Senjata Kimia’ Syria klik sini (RT's LIVE UPDATES on Syrian 'chemical weapons' crisis)

MADAyuMadyan - Kapal Pemusnah Rusia memasuki timur Mediterranean untuk mengetuai pasukan petugas - laporan. Sebuah kapal anti-kapal selam yang besar bernama “Laksamana Panteleyev” dilaporkan tiba di timur Laut Mediterranean untuk menyertai kedudukan tentera laut Rusia sebagai perdana. Ia datang tidak lama sebelum giliran yang dijadualkan 2 kapal penerbangan pendarat Rusia di kawasan itu.

Tentera Laut Rusia pemusnah meninggalkan bandar Far-Eastern pelabuhan Vladivostok pada 19 Mac dan tiba di kawasan yang ditetapkan di Mediterranean timur pada Rabu, menurut sumber-sumber yang dipetik oleh Interfax dan RIA Novosti.

Sementara itu, Kementerian Pertahanan Rusia berkata bahawa penerbangan kapal pendaratan besar “Novocherkassk” dan “Minsk” Hitam dan Baltic Sea armada Rusia telah dihantar ke kawasan itu, dan akan menyertai pasukan tentera laut Mediterranean kekal pada September 5-06 selaras dengan sebelum jadual yang dirancang.

Satu sumber memberitahu Ketua Staf Itar-Tass bahawa peninjau kapal “Priazovye” juga menuju ke kawasan tersebut untuk membantu dalam memantau keadaan di rantau itu.

Sumber Kakitangan Utama kanan Tentera Laut Rusia juga memberitahu Interfax bahawa peluru berpandu cruiser “Moskva” kapal seterusnya tiba di Mediterranean untuk menggantikan “Laksamana Panteleyev” sebagai perdana.

Kapal anti-kapal selam "Laksamana Panteleyev" (Anti-submarine ship "Admiral Panteleyev" (RIA Novosti/Vitaliy Ankov - think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

Russian destroyer enters east Mediterranean 

to head task force - report

A large anti-submarine ship named “Admiral Panteleyev” reportedly arrived in the east Mediterranean Sea to join the Russian standing naval force as flagship. It comes shortly before the scheduled rotation of two Russian landing craft carriers in the area.

The Russian Navy destroyer left the Far-Eastern port city of Vladivostok on March 19 and arrived in the designated area of the eastern Mediterranean on Wednesday, according to sources cited by Interfax and RIA Novosti.

Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry said that large landing craft carriers “Novocherkassk” and “Minsk” of Russia’s Black and Baltic Sea Fleets have been dispatched to the area, and will join the permanent Mediterranean naval force on September 5-6 in accordance with the earlier planned schedule.

A General Staff source told Itar-Tass that reconnaissance ship “Priazovye” also headed to the area to aid in monitoring the situation in the region.

A senior Russian Navy Main Staff source also told Interfax that guided missile cruiser “Moskva” will be the next vessel arriving in the Mediterranean to replace “Admiral Panteleyev” as flagship.

 

Peluru berpandu Cruiser "Moskva" (Missile cruiser “Moskva” (RIA Novosti/Vitaliy Ankov – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

“Moskva” akan tiba “dalam masa 10 hari,” kata sumber itu mendakwa, sambil menambah bahawa Baltic Rusia Armada pemusnah “Nastoichivy” dan kapal pengiring Laut Hitam Armada “Smetlivy” juga akan menyertai unit tentera laut Rusia “dalam jangka pendek . “Tiada sesiapa pun daripada tuntutan-tuntutan ini telah disahkan secara rasmi.

Kementerian Pertahanan telah berkali-kali menegaskan bahawa gerakan adalah sebahagian daripada “putaran peringkat demi peringkat kapal-kapal perang dan kapal-kapal sokongan tentera laut yang berjaga-jaga di Mediterranean” dan bahawa pergerakan baru-baru ini adalah bertujuan untuk memantau keadaan di rantau ini.

“Ini adalah amalan biasa mana-mana armada sekiranya berlaku ketegangan yang semakin meningkat di mana-mana lautan yang diberikan atau kawasan laut,” sumber Itar-Tass yang berkata, sambil menambah bahawa Tentera Laut Rusia hanya akan meningkatkan “pemantauan kompleks” dalam suatu keadaan di sekitar Syria.

Menurut satu kenyataan Selasa jurucakap kementerian itu, tugas utama kedudukan Rusia tentera laut di Mediterranean adalah “pemantauan yang komprehensif melalui udara, air, dan keadaan permukaan dalam zon penempatan itu.”

“Moskva” will arrive “in 10 days’ time,” the source claimed, adding that Russian Baltic Fleet destroyer “Nastoichivy” and escort ship of the Black Sea Fleet “Smetlivy” will also be joining the Russian naval unit “in the short run.” None of these claims have been officially confirmed.

The Defense Ministry has repeatedly stressed that the maneuvers are part of the “stage-by-stage rotation of warships and support ships of the standing naval force in the Mediterranean” and that the recent deployments are aimed at monitoring the situation in the region.

“This is a normal practice of any fleet in the event of rising tension in any given ocean or sea area,” Itar-Tass’s source said, adding that the Russian Navy will only be increasing its “complex monitoring” of the situation around Syria.

According to a ministry spokesman’s Tuesday statement, the key task of the Russian standing naval force in the Mediterranean is “comprehensive monitoring over the air, underwater, and surface situation in the zone of its deployment.”

 

Pendaratan kapal pengangkut "Novocherkassk" (Landing craft carrier “Novocherkassk” (RIA Novosti/Vasiliy Batanov – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

Sebelum kedatangan pemusnah “Laksamana Panteleyev,” kuasa laut terdiri daripada kapal penerbangan mendarat "Aleksandr Shabalin,” “Admiral Nevelskoy,” dan “Peresvet,” RIA Novosti laporan. Ia juga termasuk pengiring kapal “Neustrashimy” serta sebuah kapal tangki dan kapal tunda.

Sebagai langkah Tentera Laut Rusia mencetuskan spekulasi di media mendakwa bahawa Rusia adalah meningkatkan kehadiran tentera laut di rantau ini menjelang serangan Barat mungkin terhadap Syria, pegawai pertahanan berkata bahawa seseorang itu tidak perlu menarik persamaan antara penempatan-penempatan semula kapal perang dan krisis Syria.

“Kehadiran tentera kami di rantau ini mendahului konflik Syria, dan akan terus selepas itu, dan oleh itu ia akan menjadi salah untuk membuat apa-apa hubungan antara putaran kapal kami di rantau Mediterranean dan peristiwa di Syria,” kata seorang sumber kanan Tentera Laut Rusia memberitahu RIA Novosti.

Prior to the arrival of destroyer “Admiral Panteleyev,” the naval force consisted of landing craft carriers “Aleksandr Shabalin,” “Admiral Nevelskoy,” and “Peresvet,” RIA Novosti reports. It also included escort vessel “Neustrashimy” as well as a tanker and a tugboat.

As the Russian Navy’s moves sparked speculations in the media claiming that Russia is boosting its naval presence in the region ahead of a possible Western strike against Syria, defense officials said that one should not draw parallels between relocations of warships and the Syrian crisis.

“Our military presence in this region predates the Syrian conflict, and will continue after it, and so it would be wrong to draw any connection between the rotation of our ships in the Mediterranean region and events in Syria,” a senior Russian Navy source told RIA Novosti.