A senior Russian official has indicated the deal to buy two high-tech French warships has been definitively abandoned.
Oleg Bochkarev, the deputy chairman of the Russian Military-Industrial Commission, told media on Tuesday (26 May), in remarks reported by the state-onwed Tass agency: “Russia won't be taking them, that's a fact”.
“There’s just a single discussion underway at the moment - on the amount of money that should be returned to Russia”.
He added that Russia will ...
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