MOSCOW, Jun 13 (NNN-TASS) – The Russian navy will receive 46 warships and support vessels this year, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Nikolay Yevmenov, said yesterday.
The global military-political situation requires Russia to have a strong and balanced fleet, Yevmenov said, at a keel-laying ceremony for two diesel-electric submarines, in Russia’s second-largest city of St. Petersburg.
He reiterated President Vladimir Putin’s desire, for the Russian navy to maintain a share of modern ships of at least 70 percent.– NNN-TASS
