Admiral Kuznetsov will not be sent to Mediterranean for combat operations

Two Russian lawmakers asked Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to deploy the country’s sole aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov to the Mediterranean to assist in the current military operation in Syria.

Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier
Mil.ru [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons

But the ship will not be able to do that as it is currently undergoing maintenance at Murmansk shipyard until late 2017.

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