Xinhua News Agency, Vladivostok, July 29 (Reporters Li Bingxuan, Sun Ping) — The naval vessel formation participating in the China-Russia naval joint maritime patrol arrived in Vladivostok, Russia on the 29th, marking the conclusion of the joint patrol.
The joint patrol formation consisted of Chinese Navy missile destroyers Kaifeng and Anshan, the comprehensive replenishment ship Kekexili Hu, and the Russian Navy frigate Rezkiy.
The formation departed Qingdao, Shandong on July 13, transiting the Miyako Strait, the Iturup Strait, and the Soya Strait, and conducted joint patrols in the western Pacific Ocean and waters including the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan.
During the patrol, both Chinese and Russian sides jointly conducted training exercises in subjects including cross-deck helicopter landings, joint counterterrorism, humanitarian rescue, and visit, board, search, and seizure (VBSS) operations. Chinese vessels also, in response to the actual air and maritime situation at hand, set up scenarios on an ad hoc basis and conducted multiple combat-realistic (实战化) training exercises.
This joint patrol is arranged within the annual cooperation plan between the two militaries, aimed at enhancing the two militaries' joint operational capabilities and jointly responding to maritime security threats, and is unrelated to the current international and regional situation.