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According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the American vessel “approached the territorial waters of the Russian Federation and attempted to cross the state border.” This is the second time in four months that Russia says it expelled a NATO member ship. of its waters.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said one of its military vessels had to prevent a US Navy destroyer from violating Russian territorial waters on Friday amid Russian and Chinese naval exercises in the Sea of Japan.
“Acting within the framework of international navigation rules, Admiral Tributs set a course to expel the intruder from Russian territorial waters,” he said.
It was in the area of the Pedro el Grande Gulf, where the crew of the Russian anti-riot ship ‘Admiral Tributs’, sent a radio warning to the American destroyer ‘USS Chafee’ saying that “it was in an area closed to navigation due to exercises with fire. artillery “.
Instead of changing its course, the American ship waved the flags indicating that it was preparing to launch a helicopter from its deck, which means that it was not possible for it to change its speed or direction, the Russian ministry said in a statement. .
However, the ministry denounced that after making “an attempt to cross the Russian maritime border”, the American ship changed while being only 60 meters away from the Russian ship, and immediately afterwards, it sped away.
According to the statement, the incident lasted 50 minutes, in an area outside navigation limits due to the artillery exercises of the Russian and Chinese maneuvers.
For its part, the United States said in a military statement that “the guided-missile destroyer Chafee was conducting routine operations in international waters in the Sea of Japan when a Russian destroyer approached within 60 meters of the ship, but all the interactions were safe and professional ”.
“The actions of the destroyer’s crew are a serious violation of the international rules for preventing collisions at sea and the US-Russian intergovernmental agreement on the prevention of incidents on the high seas and in the corresponding airspace of 1972,” Moscow stressed.
An American officer was cited for unprofessional conduct by the crew of the US destroyer Chafee.
“The representative of the United States Armed Forces was informed of the position of the Russian military in relation to the attempted violation of the state border of the Russian Federation by the [destructor] Chafee in the area of the Gulf of Peter the Great on October 15, “said the Defense Ministry.
Shortly before this day, the Russian Pacific Fleet avoided an attempted intrusion of Russian territorial waters by the US destroyer Chafee in the vicinity of Vladivostok.
China and Russia in military exercises amid tension with the US in the Indo-Pacific region
Beijing has shipped the 10,000-tonne Type 055 large advanced war destroyer to the Sea of Japan for the first time.
Analysts of the international geopolitical situation, point out that these maritime exercises are a response to the Aukus Alliance presented by the United States, United Kingdom and Australia to stop the advance of China in the Indo-Pacific region.
The military practices of the allies Russia and China, reflect the mutual trust that has been forged for security strategies and the need for the great powers to prepare to have a greater presence in one of the most important regions of the world in economic terms, the Indo-Pacific.
With EFE and Reuters
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