A Russian anti-submarine ship forced a US submarine to leave national territorial waters in the Pacific on Saturday, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement, amid tension between the two countries over the situation in Ukraine.
The destroyer “Marshal Shaposhnikov” detected the submarine near the Kuril Islands and ordered it to “surface immediately”, without receiving a response, the statement said.
The ship then used “appropriate means” to force the US submarine “to leave Russian territorial waters at full speed,” he added, specifying that the incident occurred at 07:40 GMT.
“In connection with the violation by a submarine of the US Navy of the state border of the Russian Federation, the military attache of the US embassy in Moscow was summoned to the Russian Ministry of Defense,” said that agency.
The US submersible was detected during routine exercises by the Russian Pacific Fleet near Urup Island, in the Kuril Island arc.
But a statement from the US military noted that “there is no truth to the Russian version of our operations in its territorial waters.”
Capt. Kyle Raines, a spokesman for the US Asia-Pacific Command, said he would not comment on the exact location of the US submarines.
However, he added that “we do fly, navigate and operate safely in international waters.”
The incident came just hours before a telephone conversation between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden to try to defuse tensions over Ukraine, a former Soviet republic in Eastern Europe threatened, according to the United States, by an imminent Russian invasion. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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