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Tensions between the West and Russia over Ukraine have blocked a deal in which Moscow was to buy the ships, leaving Paris trying to negotiate a face-saving compromise and work out what to do with two unwanted warships.
"There are three possibilities: deliver the boats to Russia, sell them to someone else or destroy them," said a source close to the matter.