Tensions between USA and Russia
Russian warship drives away US submarine near Kuril Islands
Russia says it has driven a US submarine out of Russian waters (archive photo)
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According to Moscow, a Russian warship drove away a US submarine near the Kuril Islands. The destroyer “Marshal Shaposhnikov” has tracked down a US submarine in Russian waters.
Amid rising tensions with the West, a Russian warship has driven off a US submarine near the Kuril Islands in the Pacific, according to sources in Moscow. The destroyer “Marshal Shaposhnikov” has tracked down a US submarine in Russian waters near the Kuril Islands, the Defense Ministry said in Moscow on Saturday. Exercises by the Russian Navy were planned there at the time.
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After the Virginia-class submarine ignored requests to heave to, the Russian destroyer took “reasonable action” to force the boat to turn back, sources said. Details were not initially given. The submarine then left Russian waters “at top speed”. The American military attaché was later summoned to the Defense Ministry in Moscow and given a protest note.
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The incident happened against the background of high tensions between the US and Russia over the Ukraine crisis. According to Western sources, Russia has massed more than 100,000 soldiers on the Ukrainian border in recent weeks. The troop build-up and Russian military exercises in neighboring Belarus and in the Black Sea are fueling fears in the West of an invasion of Ukraine. Moscow rejects any plans of attack and at the same time accuses Kiev and NATO of “provocations”.