Russian Navy

In a demonstration of the Chinese navy's expanding global reach, the country's latest-generation warships conducted live-firing drills in the Mediterranean Sea this week while en route to joint exercises with the Russian navy, the defense ministry said on July 12.

A Russian ship used for gathering intelligence passed through Istanbul's Bosphorus Strait early on June 24. 

The ship called "Kildin," which belongs to the Russian navy, headed towards the Black Sea after passing through the Bosphorus at around 8:15 a.m.

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The Black Sea Fleet's task force group operating in eastern Mediterranean Sea off Syria comprises 15 vessels, including two frigates and a submarine, accompanied by various landing and auxiliary ships, the Russian Navy says.

Russia has dispatched special teams and two salvage ships to Istanbul to raise the wreckage of a Russian vessel that sank off Turkey's Black Sea coast on April 27 after colliding with a vessel carrying livestock.

The Russian intelligence ship Liman sank 29 kilometers off of Kilyos in Istanbul on April 27, although all 78 personnel were rescued and returned to Russia.

A Russian naval intelligence ship sank off Turkey’s Black Sea coast on April 27 after colliding with a vessel carrying livestock, Turkey’s Coast Guard said, noting that all 78 personnel on board were evacuated.

The ship, identified as the Liman, collided with the Togo-flagged Youzarsif H., the authority said on its website.

A Russian naval intelligence ship sank off Turkey's Black Sea coast on April 27 after colliding with a vessel carrying livestock, Turkey's Coast Guard said, noting that all 78 personnel on board were evacuated.

The ship, identified as the Liman, collided with the Togo-flagged Youzarsif H., the authority said on its website.

The video of an accident that took place on August 17th 2016 has gone viral, with some delay indeed. In the video that was taken by the sailors of a Russian Navy ship, a freighter can be seen sailing at Bosporus. A Turkish Coast Guard high-speed vessel approaches very close to the ship’s bow for no apparent reason.

It didn’t take long for the accident to happen.

The trilateral Noble Dina exercise between the American, Israeli and Hellenic navies will begin later this month, with nearly a dozen surface ships, submarines and related air assets scheduled to engage in joint reconnaissance, counterterror and antisubmarine warfare training.

Russia wants to hold maritime drills with the Philippines to help combat terrorism and piracy, sending two warships to Manila for the first official navy-to-navy contact, as President Rodrigo Duterte pivots to United States' traditional rival. 

A Russian Tupolev Tu-154 airliner with 92 passengers on board crashed in the Black Sea at 5:25’ a.m. local time (2:40’ GMT). The airplane took off from Adler near Sochi and it was on its way to the Russian Hmeymim airbase in Latakia, Syria, carrying the famous Alexandrov Ensamble (a.k.a. Red Army Choir) for a concert ahead of New Year’s Eve.