It was Sergey Karginov's proposal, who is the deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Far East and the Arctic. This appeal was addressed to the director of the Department of Asian and Pacific Cooperation of the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexei Ovchinnikov. The war in Ukraine does not require another aircraft carrier from the Soviet era. It's not like the attack on Pearl Harbor that required to transport 353 Imperial Japanese aircraft all the way to Hawaii. Russia has an air base located just about 60 kilometers from Luhansk in the Donbas region.
On January 5, a leader of the Russian Liberal Democratic Party, Sergey Karginov suggested that the Russian government buy back the Soviet aircraft carrier that Ukraine had previously sold to China, RIA Novosti reported.
The Liberal Democratic Party is a right-wing, ultranationalist party that supports the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Karginov told the media: “The unfinished aircraft carrier Varyag was handed over to Ukraine and then sold to China to convert it into a casino. After China received the ship, it completed its construction and renamed it the Liaoning ship. The ship was originally supposed to become one of the main ships of the USSR.”
Karginov made a very blunt suggestion saying, “After the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine preferred to sell it, in fact, for a price of a few bottles of vodka or price of scrap metal. Given the current situation, I propose that Russia buy this aircraft carrier from China, in the name of Zhirinovsky, the founder of the Liberal Democratic Party, and make it the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet.”
When the erstwhile Soviet Union disintegrated, Ukraine sold the Kuznetsov-class cruiser carrier to China. More than two decades later, a Russian political party has made a pitch to the Russian government to buy back the aircraft carrier from Beijing. On January 5, a leader of the Russian Liberal...
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