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Friday, June 25, 2010

Russian naval task force returns to homeport from Gulf of Aden

Udaloy classRussian Pacific Fleet commander, Adm. Konstantin Sidenko, presented sailors from a naval task force that returned from the Gulf of Aden with three roast piglets symbolizing a successful mission completion, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.

The task force, led by the Udaloy-class guided-missile destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov, arrived on Friday at its home base in the Russian Far Eastern city of Vladivostok.

The naval task force accomplished its anti-piracy mission in the Gulf of Aden on June 5. Russia is expected to resume the mission near Somalia in early July.

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