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Russian forces storm tanker, arrest pirates, save crew

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Captain First Class Ildar Akhmerov talked to journalists in Moscow via a TV link-up and discussed the results of an operation to save the crew of the Moscow University tanker seized by Somalian pirates.

Captain First Class Ildar Akhmerov talked to journalists in Moscow via a TV link-up and discussed the results of an operation to save the crew of the Moscow University tanker seized by Somalian pirates.

On Wednesday, Somalian pirates seized the Moscow University, a tanker with 23 Russian sailors aboard.

The next morning, the Russian Navy’s Marshal Shaposhnikov anti-submarine warfare (ASW) ship involved in an international anti-piracy mission off the Somalian coast came to the rescue. Commandos stormed the tanker, killed one pirate and arrested ten more.

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