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Friday, May 14, 2010

Ukraine Doesn’t Plan to Renew Submarine Base, Yanukovych Says


Balaklava
Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych said he has no plans to renew the nuclear submarine base at Balaklava on the Crimean peninsula, close to the base of Russia’s Black Sea fleet.

“This is a wild guess,” Yanukovych told reporters in Kiev today. Balaklava, along the coast from the Russian base at Sevastopol, “has already been demilitarized. A tourist infrastructure is being built there.”

Russian experts will take part in a “revision” of sites in Crimea, together with Ukraine, “to arrange the fleet in a more compact way” and use the locations for business and social projects, he said.

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