Russia has actually revealed the power of its navy throughout a parade in St Petersburg.
President Vladimir Putin guaranteed 40 brand-new ships and vessels this year when speaking at the occasion today.
The Navy Day parade, which likewise occurred in close-by Kronshtadt, included 46 ships and vessels and more than 4,000 soldiers.
It intended to ‘demonstrate the growing power of our navy’, Putin stated.
He included it would be geared up with hypersonic weapons to enhance its fight abilities.
Opening the parade, he stated that ‘six more vessels for the far-sea zone were laid down at Russia’s 3 leading shipyards’ in the previous couple of days.
The Kremlin has actually made military modernisation its leading concern amidst stress with the West that followed Moscow’s 2014 addition of Crimea.
Similar parades marking Russia’s Navy Day occurred in the Far Eastern cities of Vladivostok and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsk, Sevastopol in the annexed Crimea, the seaport towns of Severomorsk and Baltiysk, Kaspirsk in the south of Russia and the port city of Tartus in Syria.
Earlier today Putin participated in an event of keel-laying of brand-new warships in Crimea and vowed to continue an enthusiastic program of constructing brand-new warships, stating that Russia requires a strong navy to protect its interests and ‘help maintain a strategic balance and global stability.’
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