Russia sends military reconnaissance ship to Syrian coast

Russia has dispatched a military reconnaissance ship into the eastern Mediterranean, where five US warships are operating in the lead-up to a widely expected air strike in Syria.

The reconnaissance ship Priazovye departed for the Syrian coast on Sunday to keep tabs on the situation there, the state news agency Itar-Tass quoted a military source as saying.

"This is the normal policy of any fleet in the case of an increase in tensions in any ocean or sea," the source said.

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