SEVASTOPOL. April 14 (Interfax-AVN) - A unit of Black Sea Fleet ships has passed the Black Sea straits and is now heading for Egypt's Port Said.
"After successfully passing the Bosphoros and Dardanelles straits on April 11, the Black Sea warships met with supply ships in the Aegean Sea and headed for Port Said," a spokesman for the Black Sea Fleet told Interfax-Military News Agency on Monday.
The fleet unit, which embarked on a long cruise on April 10, includes the Black Sea Fleet's flagship Moskva, the escort ships Pytlivy and Smetlivy, and also the large landing ship Tsezar Kunikov.
The auxiliary ships Ivan Bubnov and Shakhter, a rescue tug, left the main base of the Black Sea Fleet on April 6.
The Pacific Fleet unit, made up of the large anti-submarine ships Marshal Shaposhnikov and Admiral Panteleyev and the tanker Vladimir Kolechitsky, left Vladivostok on April 6.
The two fleet units will meet near the island of Sokotra in the Indian Ocean.
The Russian naval ships will conduct joint exercises with the Indian Navy in May.