Russia Sends Vessel for ‘Protection of Abkhaz Waters’

Russia deployed Novorossiysk, a coast guard vessel, to breakaway Abkhazia to protect its “territorial waters.”

“Novorossiysk is the first from those coast guard boats, which will be protecting Abkhazia’s waters,” Russia’s state-owned Vesti television station reported on September 21.

Up to ten coast guard boats of Sobol and Mangust types will be deployed in Abkhazia’s port of Ochamchire for the purpose of protection of the Abkhaz “territorial waters,” according to the Russian media reports.

“We are not here for intimidating anyone; we are here to protect the law,” Faik Mamedov, captain of the vessel, Novorossiysk, told Vesti television station.

He said Novorossiysk was from the series of “artillery ships” with “quite serious capabilities.”

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