PARIS – For sale: two French-built helicopter carriers, tested by Russians. Buy now for only 1.2 billion euros. Shipping extra.Tensions between the West and Russia over Ukraine have blocked a deal in which Moscow was to buy the ships, leaving Paris trying to negotiate a face-saving compromise and work out CAwhat to do with two unwanted warships.”There are three possibilities: deliver the boats to Russia, sell them to someone else or destroy them,” said a source close to the matter.It is an embarrassment that is not of French President Francois Hollande’s making. The deal stems from his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy’s …read more
Source: AsiaOne
