Russian Training ship " Smolny " with the sailors, trained on the " Mistral " in France, managed to arrive at the Kronstadt before the New year, said Last news on Tuesday, a source in the Russian defense Ministry.

Training ship " Smolny " 400 sailors sailed from the port of Saint-Nazaire on December 18, and went to the Russian coast.

" On Tuesday morning he ( " Smolny " - ed) came. The boys were trained, worked and returned, " said the head of the Department.

first it was claimed that the delay in the arrival of the " Smolny " in Kronstadt due to weather.

the contract for manufacture and delivery of two (2) helicopter carrier Mistral was concluded between the French DCNS and the " Rosoboronexport " in 2011. France had to give 1st amphibious ship " Vladivostok " on November 14, but it was not.

the head of the French Republic fran?ois Hollande announced that he had decided to stop for awhile delivery " Vladivostok " because of the situation in Ukraine. In early December, the French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said that he considered the conversation about the possible failure of the Treaty " premature ".

Russia expects from France or supply ships, or money back.


(Mistral) airborne vertolyotny ship dock amphibious assault ship-ship (France). The French classify class ships Mistral as amphibious command ships (b

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