Russia has no warships in the Mediterranean for the first time in more than a decade, as Moscow diverts vessels to protect sanctioned oil tankers from NATO seizures.

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Russia has no warships in the Mediterranean for the first time in more than a decade, as Moscow diverts vessels to protect sanctioned oil tankers from NATO seizures. Western officials say Russia’s overstretched surface fleet is in “a shambles,” with its permanent Mediterranean task force, established in 2013, absent since June. Source: The Telegraph