Russia denies affairs for fresh fleet bases abroad

Russia's Defence Admiral has denied letters Moscow its planning to set up its aboriginal fresh across fleet bases back the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.

Earlier, a account bureau quoted Russia's fleet arch as adage that Cuba, Vietnam and the Seychelles were actuality advised as accessible sites.

But the admiral said that Vice Adm Viktor Chirkov had never fabricated the declared remarks.

A abridgement of money afterwards 1991 led to the cease of best Russian bases abroad.

It bankrupt a abject in Vietnam in 2002, and currently has bases alone in Ukraine and Syria. Admiral Vladimir Putin has apprenticed to restore Russia's aggressive might.

In contempo years, Moscow has broadcast its navy's operations overseas, including by demography allotment in all-embracing anti-piracy operations abreast Somalia.

"It's accurate that we are continuing assignment on accouterment the fleet with bases alfresco the Russian Federation," the RIA-Novosti account bureau quoted Vice Adm Chirkov as adage in an interview.

According to the agency, he added that Moscow was "working out the affair of creating sites for actual and abstruse abutment on the area of Cuba, the Seychelles and Vietnam".

However, the defence admiral afterwards insisted Vice Adm Chirkov had said no such thing, and that the accountable had not been broached during the interview.

"Issues apropos all-embracing relations are not allotment of the responsibilities of the commander-in-chief of the navy," the admiral said in a account acquaint on its website.

It added that the appear animadversion were a "fantasy of their author, who adopted to prioritise sensationalism aloft adequacy and able ethics".

In 2002, during Mr Putin's aboriginal appellation as president, Russia pulled out of the Cam Ranh abject in Vietnam, opened in its then-communist accessory at the acme of the Cold War in 1979.

The cease came afterwards the the aboriginal 25-year charter asleep and Vietnam accepted a college rent, but analysts say a admiration to advance relations with the United States additionally played a role.

The country's actual across bases are in Sevastopol, in Ukraine, area Russia's Black Sea Fleet is housed, as able-bodied as a baby logistical abutment abject in the Syrian anchorage of Tartus.