OREANDA-NEWS. February 26, 2009. The Pyotr Veliky (Peter the Great) nuclear-powered GM heavy cruiser , after having completed joint naval exercises with India, has passed through the Suez Canal and is now in the Mediterranean Sea.

The Northern Fleet's Admiral Levchenko destroyer had moored in the Syrian port of Tartus on February 23. The Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier and the frigate Admiral Chabanenko are conducting operations in the North Atlantic.

The Admiral Vinogradov frigate is continuing its anti-piracy operations in the Horn of Africa near Somalia.