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Russian warships exercise in Indian Ocean

"Pyotr Veliky" (mil.ru)

Two Russian warships from Russia’s Northern and Black Sea Fleets started a series of exercises in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, a Russian news agency reports.

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The nuclear-powered missile cruiser “Pyotr Veliky” teamed up on Sunday with the Black Sea Fleet’s missile cruiser “Moskva”, who had made a port call in the southwestern Indian city of Kochi, RIA Novosti reports.

The exercise involved rescue at sea, putting out a fire on board a vessel in distress and towing it to safety.

The two vessels are due to arrive in Russia’s Far Eastern port of Vladivostok in June-July to take part in the large-scale strategic exercise Vostok-2010. They will be joined by vessels from the Pacific Fleet, as BarentsObserver reported.

The upcoming land drills will involve units from the Far Eastern, the Siberian and the Volga-Urals military districts.

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