Russia admits defeat? The US is following Moscow's movements. ‘Exit equipment’

A video showing the surface an American ship sailing from the vicinity of northern Sicily South published on 3 February the Italian portal Itamilradar, tracking the movement of aircraft, ships and ships in the Mediterranean Sea.

During this time Russian convoy located on the confederate shores of the Italian island, tracked by ATR P-72A aircraft owned by the Italian Air Force and by the American Boeing P-8 Poseidon, which is intended for detection and control of submarines and submarines.

Data from the MarineTraffic portal, showing the location of the ships in real time, showed that Russian cargo ships Sparta and Sparta II Saturday night received into the Strait of Gibraltar. General Skobielev's position was besides registered. Protecting convoys of Russian warships – frigates Admiral Grigorovich and Admiral Golovko and landing ships of Ivan Grien and Aleksandr Otrakowski – floated with deactivation of recognition systems (AIS).

All that flotilla that documented satellite images, was inactive in the Syrian port of Tartus at the end of January. Defence Ministry opposition Centre Ukraine reported on 4 February that Russian ships began evacuation of weapons from the Syrian port on 27 January, charging it to Sparta and Sparta II.

Both ships are loaded hundreds of containers. The Russians were to transport from the Syrian base, which they had equipped with respective air defence systems, including the short-range TOR rocket defence system, and Anti-aircraft Pancyr-S2 armed with 57E6-E missiles. Both systems were visible on a recording published by the Russian Ministry of Defence last June on the X portal. The Russians besides had there S-300 and S-400 systems and anti-shipper rocket K300-P Bastion systems.

The second Moscow most likely already in December sent to Libya – as reported at the time by the American Institute of Enterprise (AEI). According to analysts of the U.S. Institute for War Studies (ISW) other equipment most likely Russia usage against Ukraine.

Leaving the Russian Mediterranean fleet proves thatKremlin does not believe in the successful result of ongoing negotiations with the fresh authorities Syria. The Tartus base was a key component of Russian military and political influence on Middle East And in Africa.

Now Russia may want to replace Tartus with another base. Libyan ports in Benghazi, Tobruk or Al-Bajda may be involved. They are controlled by Russia-supported warlord Khalifa Haftara.

However, the political situation in Libya is very dynamic. presently in the merger of divided armed forces into 1 army got active United States. AFRICOM's deputy commander, General John Brennan, visited Tripoli in the west and Benghazi in the east of the country during the passing week, where he met Saddam Haftar, the boy of Chalifa. Uniting the army and the country can make it much harder for Russia to take over Libyan bases.

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