By Andrew Osborn | MOSCOW MOSCOW Russia is urgently expanding its military support fleet to include more long-range ships to improve its ability to move troops and hardware to distant locations such as Syria, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday.The construction push follows the Kremlin’s 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea, which used large military landing ships to bring in armoured vehicles, and its 2015 intervention in Syria, and underscores Moscow’s expanded geopolitical ambitions.For its Syria operation, Russia opened the “Syrian Express,” a shipping route from the Black Sea to the Syrian port of Tartus, which is serviced by military …read more
Source: Firstpost
