The Drive: Russian ships of Project 775 caused alarm in Sweden and the UK
Large landing ships (BDK) "Korolev", "Minsk" and "Kaliningrad" of Project 775 (according to the NATO classification - Ropucha, which means "Toad" in Polish) after Sweden, Great Britain was alarmed, writes the American edition of The Drive.
"A separate flotilla of three Russian amphibious ships recently caused alarm in Sweden, which sent additional forces to the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea in response to increased Russian naval activity in the region," the publication says.
The publication admits that three Russian amphibious ships from the Baltic Sea could be heading to the Mediterranean or the Black Sea. "Regardless of whether they were heading to the Black Sea or the Mediterranean, Ropucha almost certainly passed through the English Channel along these routes, which caused alarm to the British armed forces," the newspaper writes.
In January, a source in the ship repair industry told [...] TASS [...] that repair work on the Yamal ship of Project 775 of the Black Sea Fleet, which sailed to the Syrian Tartus from Sevastopol (Crimea) to supply the grouping of the Russian Aerospace Forces, but in December 2017 collided with an African cargo ship in the Aegean Sea, ran into a shortage of money.
BDK project 775 was built in Poland at the Gdansk shipyard Stocznia Polnocna for the USSR.
