MOSCOW, September 21 (RIA Novosti) -- Russian...
The official added that nine of the 23 vessels were sailing under Russian flags.
The three-day exercises, which started on September 18 and included Russia"s Admiral Tributs destroyer and two Chinese warships, the Zhoushan and Xuzhou, along with a number of support vessels, were focused on search-and-detain operations.
A new element in these exercises has been the search, location and detention of a dummy pirate vessel.
The Russian warship will now resume regular escorts of commercial vessels through waters off the Somali coast.
The third Russian task force from the Pacific Fleet, led by the Admiral Tributs with two helicopters on board, arrived in the Gulf of Aden on July 30.
The previous two task forces from the Pacific Fleet were led by the Admiral Vinogradov and Admiral Panteleyev destroyers.
The fleet"s warships have escorted over 100 Russian and foreign commercial ships and prevented several pirate attacks since January 2009.