A squadron of Russian warships entered the English Channel on Friday but a NATO official dismissed a Russian media report that they were there to conduct military exercises.
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The Mistral-class assault warship Sevastopol, the second of two mammoth Mistral helicopter carriers, is docked on Nov. 26, 2014 in the western French port of Saint-Nazaire after being taken from its dry dock on Nov. 20.