Putin banned repair ships of the Navy abroad

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has banned the Defense Ministry to repair Navy ships in foreign shipyards. About this newspaper «Izvestia», citing a source in the ministry.

With repair ships abroad, the Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu. According to him, about 80% of the over one thousand Russian warships and support vessels, worn out and in need of repair. The state program of armaments, in turn, provides for up to 2020 only 65 repair ships, and 12 special and 62 auxiliary ships. In the queue for the construction are 113 ships, eight special and 65 auxiliary ships.

According to the Russian military, which refers to the newspaper, local shipyards can not handle the repair and maintenance of ships. In 2012 the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), which are subject to most of the shipyards did not manage doremontirovat six ships, with 157 ships still not finished maintenance.

In the PSC, in turn, the «News» was assured that the problems with the repair of ships at Russian shipyards will be. «The hardest part is the construction of modern shipbuilding submarines and aircraft carriers. USC is now successfully deal with it. Hence it is not difficult to master the repair of ships and other ships, «- told the USC spokesman Alexei Kravchenko.