Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visiting naval exercises in Murmansk as president in 2005
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Russian Warships Exercise in Atlantic
Joint exercises with Venezuelan ships will be held in the Atlantic Ocean in November of this year as part of the military preparedness plan. Viktor Dygalo, head of the information and public relations service of the Russian Navel Fleet stated that Russia will send a detachment of ships from the North Sea Fleet led by the heavy atomic cruiser Peter the Great.
Aircraft carriers will also take part in the exercise, Dygalo said. The ships will carry out a number of joint exercises, including maneuvers, search and rescue and communications training. Dygalo said that he exercises have been in the planning stage for a year and the decision to hold them was made in July at a meeting of the Russian and Venezuelan presidents.
Andrey Nesterenko, official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry repeated that the exercises are the result of lengthy planning. “It is a planned event not connected with the current political conditions in the Caucasus,” he said. If the exercises take place, he added, they will not be directed against any third countries.
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