“The Russian side does not comment on reports circulating in foreign media that the shipment has been refueling Russian army workers at their bases in Syria, docking at the port of Tartus,” Al Jazeera’s Julia Shapovalova reported from Moscow, adding that “In the past, this shipment dealt with such activities in Syria.
“According to the official Russian version, the shipment was heading towards Vladivostok, in the far east of Russia, carrying huge cranes weighing up to 380 tons each, supposedly intended for the structure of a fashionable nuclear icebreaker,” Array Shapovalova said.