Russian and Chinese Armada Sails East China Sea Near Japan

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The People’s Liberation Army Navy task force is led by Rear Adm. Wang Yu, who is commanding from his flagship, the guided-missile destroyer Jinan.The group includes sister destroyer Baotou, the guided-missile frigates Binzhou and Yangchen, an unnamed diesel submarine, and what Tass called “a comprehensive supply ship.”That’s most likely the Type 903 Fuchi-class supply ship Gaoyouhu.Russia’s Slava-class Varyag will be escorted by the guided-missile frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov and a pair of Project 20380 Steregushchiy-class corvettes, Hero of the Russian Federation Aldar Tsydenzhapov and Sovershenny.They also arrived a day after Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, addressed a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill, with lawmakers vowing to send another $44.9 billion in military aid to Kyiv’s forces.Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters the guided-missile frigate Admiral Gorshkov will exit the repair yard and return to naval service in early January, and “new weapon systems are already being tested there.”“Although these weapon systems are of intermediate range, they have such speed specifications that they provide us with certain advantages in this sense,” Putin added."

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