The Russian Federation carries a weapon from Syria through the waters of Turkey: Kyiv urged Ankara to prevent it - WSJ

In August, Ankara did not stop the Russian ship "Sparta II", which transported the C-300 anti-aircraft missile system from Syria to Novorossiysk. Due to the depletion of military equipment and ammunition reserves, Russia uses commercial vessels to transport weapons, in particular through Turkey -controlled Bosphorus Strait. The Ukrainian side demands that Ankara stop Russian ships with weapons because it is designed to support the invaders in the south of the country.

About it on Friday, September 2, writes Wall Street Journal. Journalists recalled that on Monday, August 29, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine presented a note of Turkey's Aviation because, according to Kyiv, the Turkish side allowed the passage of Sparta II vessel with the C-300 Anti-Wentlage Prats. As a result of August 27, the ship arrived in the Russian port of Novorossiysk, near Ukraine.

The company "Defense", which controls the Sparta II ship ", assured that the ship transported a commercial cargo weighing 2 thousand tons, including pipes, chemicals, fuel and equipment to Syria, and returned to the Russian Federation with olive oil. Turkey, meanwhile, emphasized that under international law, it has no right to interfere with the passage of commercial courts.

For its part, US officials claim that Russia's C-300 throwing from Syria indicates that the aggressor states are over the reserves of certain types Russian military operations. In a comment to the publication, an unnamed Russian official, familiar with the Kremlin operations in Syria, said that this country is "an ideal place for NATO pressure. " We will remind, recently it became known about the transfer to the border with Ukraine the echelona of the SPRC C-300 with Ulan-Us.