L’ammiraglio Vladimir Vysotsky, comandante in capo della marina militare russa, ha affermato che, se la sua flotta di stanza nel Mar Nero avesse avuto una nave Mistral durante il conflitto con la Georgia, le operazioni sarebbero durate 40 minuti invece che 26 ore.
Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, has said that if Russia had had a Mistral class ship at the time of the conflict with Georgia, the Russian Black Sea Fleet would have performed its operation in 40 minutes instead of 26 hours.