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FSB Border Service Coast Guard in Far East to get two new escort vessels

Vessels were built in line with Russian design at the Vostochnya Sudoverf (Eastern shipyard) enterprise

VLADIVOSTOK, January 23. /TASS/. The Russian Federal Security Service’s (FSB) Border Service Coast Guard will on Saturday receive two new escort vessels, built in line with Russian design at the Vostochnya Sudoverf (Eastern shipyard) enterprise, Border Service spokeswoman Albina Proskurenko told TASS.

"The Korall vessel and a patrol vessel will be in service at the section of the Russian FSB Border Department in the Sakhalin Region and will fulfill tasks to guard territorial sea, the exclusive economic zone and continental shelf," Proskurenko said.