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We Delivered Weapons To Syria, But Moscow Didn’t Pay Us, - Crew of “Tkachenko” Ferry Complains.

3,102 views · Published 25 December 2015 · 4:15 · Indexed 10 November 2026

Channel: NewsFromUkraine · 2015 · News & Politics

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In September 2015, Reuters reported that a Russian ferry, called the Alexandr Tkachenko. was transporting weapons to Syria on September 6-11. The Russian defense ministry did not respond to written questions from Reuters about this.

Interestingly, just few days earlier, when a reporter at the East Economic Forum, held September 4 on Russky Island, asked whether Russia is ready to fight in the Middle East, Putin answered that it would be premature to address the subject: “We are considering various options, but what you mentioned is not on the agenda.” 

Photographs supplied by an Istanbul-based blogger and shipping enthusiast, Yoruk Isik, clearly show Tkachenko carrying Russian army Ural-4320 military trucks on its main cargo deck as it passed through the Bosphorus en route to Syria on Sept. 6. The Ural-4320, a workhorse for the Russian army, is used to transport weapons and troops. It can also be used as a platform for a rocket launcher.

In this video, crew members of Tkachenko ferry from Crimea confirm that they were transporting military equipment to Syria already in September, several weeks before Russia’s official intervention to Syria, and complain that Moscow didn’t pay them for their work.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-russia-shipping-idUSKCN0S11HE20151007

http://sevastopolnews.info/2015/12/lenta/sobytiya/069247077/

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