Two icebreakers escort gas tanker in first summer shipment on Arctic route

Vilkitsky Strait, Russia

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Ice lies thick on the water as nuclear powered icebreakers "Sibir" and "Arktika" escort LNG carrier "Fedor Litke" into the Vilkitsky Strait en route to a Northeast Asian port.

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Two icebreakers escort gas tanker in first summer shipment on Arctic route

Vilkitsky Strait, Russia

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Two icebreakers escort gas tanker in first summer shipment on Arctic route

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