Turkey did not allow Russian Pacific Fleet ships to enter the Black Sea

The head of the Institute for Black Sea Strategic Studies monitoring group, Andriy Klymenko, wrote this

According to the researcher, the Russian Pacific Fleet missile cruiser Varyag and the large anti-submarine ship Admiral Tributs wanted to enter the Black Sea in order to bombard Ukraine. They came from Vladivostok to the Mediterranean Sea back in February. But Turkey did not let them through the Bosporus. As a result, the ships had to return home

See the letters Z and V on the tubes? - it's like in the old joke: "No need"... And all because of Turkey with its straits. And we waited 9 months.... Tired, there was nowhere to repair them, the crews went wild

on 6 November, the Russian Pacific Fleet's missile cruiser Varyag (011) and the large anti-submarine ship Admiral Tributs (564) were sighted in the Strait of Singapore en route to their home base in Vladivostok from the Mediterranean Sea

The Russian Defence Ministry said today that the Varyag, Admiral Tributs and tanker Boris Butoma had passed the Strait of Malacca and entered the South China Sea.