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The Russian Navy’s Baltic Fleet training ship Perekop, with cadets from naval academies and schools on board, visited the Vietnamese port of Cam Ranh as part of a navigation training exercise, the Russian Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City told TASS.

During their stay in Vietnam, the sailors held meetings with the command of the Vietnamese Navy’s 4th Naval District, played a friendly volleyball match against a team from the Vietnamese Naval Academy, and laid a wreath at the memorial “In memory of Soviet, Russian, and Vietnamese military personnel and civilians who sacrificed their lives for peace and stability in the region.” This memorial complex was unveiled in 2009 to replace a commemorative obelisk that had previously stood on the grounds of the military airfield at the Pacific Fleet’s logistics support base in Cam Ranh.

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Cooperation between the Russian and Vietnamese navies has spanned more than seven decades. Vietnam, as repeatedly stated by representatives of the country’s government and military leadership, will always remember the unparalleled feat of the Soviet sailors who provided fraternal assistance in the struggle for national independence. During Vietnam’s struggle against French colonialism (1945-1954) and its resistance to American aggression (in the late 1960s and early 1970s), Russian sailors ensured the passage of cargo ships to Vietnamese ports, delivering weapons, ammunition, food, and medicines essential to the young Vietnamese republic as it fought against powerful adversaries.