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Meanwhile, mass media and officials of Russia, Israel, and Syria made contradictory statements about Russian warships planning to call at Tartus as well as about the prospects of upgrading the facility to a naval base. [15] In July 2009, the Russian military announced they would modernize the Tartus facility. [16]
Khmeimim Air Base (Russian: Хмеймим), also Hmeimim Air Base (Arabic: حميميم), is a Syrian airbase currently operated by Russia, located south-east of the city of Latakia in Hmeimim, Latakia Governorate, Syria and approximately 2 miles north-east of the coastal town of Jableh.
Troops of the Russian 102nd Military Base at Republic Square, Yerevan during the 2016 Armenian Independence Day military parade. This article lists military bases of Russia abroad. The majority of Russia's military bases and facilities are located in former Soviet republics; which in Russian political parlance is termed the "near abroad".
New satellite images show Russian cargo ships docked at Tartus to haul away military equipment. Russia's presence at the key naval base in Syria fell into uncertainty after the Assad regime ended.
Last week, Ukrainian military intelligence told BBC Verify that Russian flights had transferred military personnel and equipment from Russia's other Syrian base - Hmeimim - to airbases in Libya at ...
Since the fall of Bashar Assad, Syria's longtime ruler, earlier this month, the future of Russia's two military bases in the country — the Hmeimim air base and the Tartus naval base — has been ...
In new satellite imagery, Russia's military appears to be packing up equipment at a key airbase in Syria. The images show transport aircraft ready to load cargo at the Hmeimim Air Base on Friday.
Tartus hosts a Soviet-era naval supply and maintenance base, under a 1971 agreement with Syria, which is still staffed by Russian naval personnel. Tartus is the last Russian military base outside the former Soviet Union, and its only Mediterranean fueling spot, sparing Russia's warships the trip back to their Black Sea bases through straits in ...