[maquiladora]

Russians have 3 ships to the north at the Syrian port

Do you have a source for that?

[monkeyshine]

“Russia recently decided to reestablish its naval presence in the region at Tartus, Syria. In recent months, Syria has begun renovations at the port to facilitate the docking of large Russian Navy ships.”

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1202064573279&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

I’ll dig for more sources...

Actually from what I can find, I may have been mistaken - the 1 ship appear to have gone listing off to sea... I’ll search more later.