Russia retires military equipment in the Syrian port, the show’s show

Russia has stepped on military withdrawal from Syria, removing vehicles and containers by removing the BBC verification in the Mediterranean coast of the country.

After deciding the Assad regime in December, the verified film showed the columns of Russian vehicles to the north. Then satellite images showed the military hardware stored there.

But the new images published by the planet laboratories on Wednesday that a large part of the material showed that the vessels associated with the Russian military.

Russian officials “Frank Discussions” were with the new Government of Damascus, Reuters reported on Wednesday.

The new Syrian government has abandoned Russia’s lease in the port, but the government departments attracted by BBC would not ratify the final decision.

Tartous has been a key basis for Russia in recent years to supply Mediterranean vessels, re-supplying and resolving. But previously warships were held in the port They have not appeared in satellite images from the collapse of the Assad regime – Protected Moscow during the Syrian Civil War.

Kremlin stated the desire to maintain control over the base and said in December he was talking to new rulers to maintain the presence.

However, evidence suggests that Moscow now decided to move away from the port of valuable equipment. Satellite images also show Russian hardware around Hmeimim Airbase near Hmeimim Airbase for several weeks.

Two bowls – Sparta and Sparta II. They are shown in between 22 and 22 January, showing tracking sites. Both ships are under the ownership of the Oborlogistics LLC. It is a shipping company, as part of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

The two ships are punished by the US and Ukraine have been linked to transporting Russian arms. They can throw the vessels that can carry vehicles.

Sparta II started the port every Monday, according to data on the website tracking website. Satellite images revealed that the large amount of military vehicles parked near the ship was no longer there.

The ship’s bowl bowl received Marinetraffic in the morning of Tuesday, near the coast of Cyprus that he was traveling through the Mediterranean. Since then, it has not received a signal so that the follower is turned off.

On Wednesday, satellite images showed another vessel – Sparta experts also left the port. The images also showed a large number of containers nearby.

The signal of the Sparta’s ship has not been detected since they were detected in between – Maybe they are turned off.

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) allows all the boats to broadcast more than 300 tons of raw signal, except in certain limited situations.

The vessels can choose to deactivate their monitoring signal for legitimate reasons – when browsing high-risk piracy sites. But according to NATO, he also suggested trying to try the boat “hiding illegal activities”.

Frederik Van Loker’s sea experts, former Lieutenant and Analyst of the Belgian Army, said it was “very safe” that the ship was the ship Sparta, based on satellite images.

The BBC check has previously controlled Sparta and the area where the docked area is empty.

There is no light boats exactly. Mr. Van Loker said that BBC could be on the way to Libya, where Kremlin has already had an important military presence with the support of Warlord Haftar based on Tobruk.

Last week, the military intelligence of Ukraine said that Russian flights transferred Russian military workers and equipment from other Russian Syrian Base – Hmeimim – Airbases in Libya 10 times in Mid-December 10 times.

However, the Lord of Van Leker also proposed that the boats could be linked to Russia, where he said “great probability to expand the first line against Ukraine”.

Dmitry Gorenburg, an expert on safety issues of the Soviet Union of Harvard, has verified the BBC that the movement suggested that Russia suggested the end.

“I don’t know how to get rid of all the accessories or not, but in my head, it’s largely impossible,” he said. “It’s time account until the military presence of Russia is over at the end. We’ll see what comes next.”

Mark Edwards’s graphics.