| inbluevt | Date: Wednesday, 2013/06/26, 6:51 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Russia has evacuated the last of its personnel from Syria, including from its Mediterranean naval base in Tartus, in a move that appears to underline Moscow's mounting concerns about the escalating crisis.
Russian media reported on Wednesday that they had confirmed the evacuation with officials in the country's military and foreign ministry. But there was no official confirmation of a claim from rebel Free Syrian Army sources
that a Russian plane had been shot down and its pilot captured in the
western Aleppo area.
The effective closure of the Tartus base would be a significant loss, though a 16-ship naval task force is still
in the eastern Mediterranean. The base is Russia's only foothold in the Middle East.
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