(18.06.) Russian General Staff denied blankly the information of some American media agencies that a Russian ship with military servicemen on board was allegedly deployed to Syrian port Tartus, reports ITAR-TASS.

„All our ships are presently in the base Sevastopol except landing ship Caesar Kunikov. But the ship is heading in the Black Sea on her way from Italian port Messina“, stressed a spokesman for Russian General Staff.

„Either American intelligence blunders or it neglected school course in geography“, joked the undisclosed military official.