A group of the Russian Northern Fleet's
aircraft carriers embarked on a deployment to the Northeast Atlantic and the
Mediterranean Sea on Tuesday, in accordance with the Russian Navy's combat
training plan.
"The naval group includes the heavy aircraft
carrying cruiser Soviet Union Fleet Admiral Kuznetsov, the large anti-submarine
ship Admiral Levchenko, the large assault ship Olenegorsky Gornyak, as well as
support vessels such as the rescue towboat Nikolai Chiker and the tankers Sergei
Osipov and Kama," the Northern Fleet's spokesman, Captain 1st Rank Vadim Serga,
told Interfax-AVN on Tuesday.
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