Two Russian Warships Head To Syria’s Coast Ahead Of US Planned Air Strikes
Russia seems poised to defend its ally as Russian warships are being dispatched to the Syrian coast as Moscow boosts its presence in the region ahead of expectations the US will not wait for world support and go it alone with air strikes on the Assad regime. The St Petersburg central naval command has announced the large landing warship Nikolai Filchenkov will set sail for the Syrian coast to join two Russian destroyers which had already left. They will join a Russian anti-submarine ship, a frigate and three other landing ships in the eastern Mediterranean coast. In the game of brinkmanship, the Russians announced the latest warship deployed would be collecting “special cargo” but would not elaborate. “The ship will make call in Novorossiisk, where it will take on board special cargo and set off for the designated area of its combat duty in the eastern Mediterranean,” the Russian official said. The US also has warships in the area and as US president Barack O...