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Russian nuclear missile cruiser to dock at Syrian port on Yom Kippur eve
by Prophecy News Watch Oct. 5 2008
July 18th, 2001
Russian Navy spokesman Capt. Igor Dygalo has disclosed that
a four-ship squadron led by the Peter the Great nuclear missile cruiser will
call in at the Libyan port of Tripoli and “other Middle East ports” before
heading out to the Caribbean for joint maneuvers with Venezuela. DEBKAfile’s
military sources report that one of those ports is Tartus, Syria, where
preparations are afoot to receive the visiting Russian flotilla. Peter the
Great , one of the most advanced naval vessels afloat, may in fact anchor at the
new facility the Russians are building at Syria’s second major port, Latakia,
for its first visit to Syria; the rest of the squadron, the Admiral Chabanenko
submarine, a reconnaissance vessel and a fourth ship, will dock at Tartus.
Peter the Great is designed to sink large surface vessels such as aircraft
carriers. The ship’s Granit (Nato designated SS-N-19 Shipwreck) anti-ship cruise
missiles (20 missile launchers) can destroy vessels up to 500 km distant in
ripple-fire mode. Coinciding with the 35th anniversary of the Egyptian-Syrian
Yom Kippur attack on Israel, the Russian warships’ arrival in Syria has serious
connotations.