Missiles target Libyan air defences

BRITISH submariners have pinpointed key air defence installations in two nights of cruise missile strikes against Libya.

The launches from the Trafalgar-class boat – the first since the 2003 war against Saddam Hussein – are the Navy’s contribution to a rain of fire and steel which has landed on Colonel Gaddafi’s forces as Allied nations enforce UN Security Council Resolution 1973.

Aside from the Tomahawk strikes from the submarine – its identity is classified for security reasons – frigates HMS Westminster and Cumberland are on patrol off Libya enforcing an arms embargo under Operation Ellamy, the UK’s military action in support of the UN resolution.

Targets from Zuwara in western Libya to the rebel-held port of Benghazi in the east, plus a military command centre in the city’s capital of Tripoli have been attacked in the concerted Allied series of air and missile strikes.

None of Libyan trainees has left Russia

Libyan military servicemen who are trained in Russia remain in the country, none of them has left for Libya, reported RIA Novosti on Tuesday referring to a source in Leningrad Naval Base. 

Most of Libyan trainees study in St. Petersburg. Some news agencies recently reported that Libyan servicemen trained in Russia had left for homeland due to riots in Libya. 

"None of Libyan servicemen trained in Russian Navy's scientific center has aborted training process and left Russia", said the interviewee. 

He added that all of them continued training.