The Russian destroyer RFS Admiral Levchenko has started escorting a convoy of seven civilian ships off the coast of Africa, a Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said Tuesday.
"Today the large ASW ship Admiral Levchenko completed forming a regular convoy of seven civilian ships of different class, and started accompanying it through the most dangerous areas of the Horn of Africa and the Gulf of Aden," the spokesman said.
A task force led by the RFS Admiral Levchenko, an Udaloy class guided-missile destroyer of the Northern Fleet, arrived in the Gulf of Aden on July 3 to join the international anti-piracy mission near Somalia. The Russian mission also includes the Olekma tanker and the SB-36 tugboat of Russia's Black Sea Fleet.
The SB-36 tugboat thwarted on August 3 an attack of two pirate boats on the Russian-flagged Dafna tanker in the southern part of the Red Sea.
According to the London-based International Maritime Bureau, the number of pirate attacks worldwide decreased in the first half of 2010 by 34 percent year-on-year mostly due to the ongoing anti-piracy operation in the Gulf of Aden.
The Russian Navy has maintained a presence off the Horn of Africa with warships operating on a rotation basis. Russia joined international anti-piracy efforts off the Somali coast in October 2008.
(RIA NOVOSTI)
"Today the large ASW ship Admiral Levchenko completed forming a regular convoy of seven civilian ships of different class, and started accompanying it through the most dangerous areas of the Horn of Africa and the Gulf of Aden," the spokesman said.
A task force led by the RFS Admiral Levchenko, an Udaloy class guided-missile destroyer of the Northern Fleet, arrived in the Gulf of Aden on July 3 to join the international anti-piracy mission near Somalia. The Russian mission also includes the Olekma tanker and the SB-36 tugboat of Russia's Black Sea Fleet.
The SB-36 tugboat thwarted on August 3 an attack of two pirate boats on the Russian-flagged Dafna tanker in the southern part of the Red Sea.
According to the London-based International Maritime Bureau, the number of pirate attacks worldwide decreased in the first half of 2010 by 34 percent year-on-year mostly due to the ongoing anti-piracy operation in the Gulf of Aden.
The Russian Navy has maintained a presence off the Horn of Africa with warships operating on a rotation basis. Russia joined international anti-piracy efforts off the Somali coast in October 2008.
(RIA NOVOSTI)
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