The amount of compensation paid by France for the termination of the contract for the supply of two Mistral helicopter carriers amounted to more than 1,1 billion euros. The funds, according to the publication, were transferred to one of the Russian banks on August 5 in the strictest secrecy. Such measures were taken in order to avoid the risk of seizure of this amount in claims ...
Negotiations between Russia and France on the Mistrals have been completed, the terms and amount that Paris will pay Moscow have been determined, the contract will be officially terminated in the very near future. Vladimir Kozhin, Assistant to the Russian President for Military-Technical Cooperation, announced this on Thursday. “The negotiations have already been completed, everything has already been determined - and the deadlines...
Russia and France have tentatively agreed on the amount of the penalty for non-delivery of Mistrals; the next stage of consultations will take place in July, a source in the field of military-technical cooperation told RIA Novosti on Wednesday. One of the last meetings, held in May of this year, ended without results. “During June, we managed to reach a solution previously agreed upon by both sides...
Moscow has lost hope of receiving the French Mistral helicopter carriers ordered in 2011, and currently Russia is only negotiating with France on compensation for the failure of the contract. Oleg Bochkarev, deputy chairman of the board of the Military-Industrial Commission, spoke about this. According to…
Former French Transport Minister, National Assembly Deputy Thierry Mariani believes that the Mistrals ordered by Russia can be resold to the European Union. According to Le Figaro, the ex-head of the department proposed exactly this option to resolve the situation to the government of the country on Wednesday, May 20. According to him ...
Russia and France began discussing the terms of terminating the contract for the supply of Mistral helicopter carriers. As we found out, the French side is offering Moscow 785 million euros in compensation, which will be transferred after a written consent to the sale of ships to any third party. Moscow demands 1,163 billion euros in compensation for expenses incurred by Russia ...
France may sell Mistral-class helicopter carriers built for Russia to China. This may happen during a visit to the port of Shanghai on May 9-15 by a group of ships of the French Navy. The official microblog of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy said that the navy group (Navy)…
French authorities are studying the possibility of sinking two Mistral helicopter carriers if it is impossible to transfer them to Russia. This is the cheapest solution to the problem. “Among the main options being considered by Paris is the destruction of ships. We can talk about dismantling them or even flooding them in...
If the Mistral class ships are never transferred to Russia, France is ready to return the money paid by Moscow for them. This was stated by French President Francois Hollande during a joint press conference with his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko in Paris. The issue of helicopter carriers Oland is going to...