On Tuesday, Russia’s defence ministry said that their warship caught the U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain operating illegally in Russia’s territorial waters in the Sea of Japan, which it chased it off.
Russia said that the Admiral Vinogradov, a Russian destroyer, had verbally warned the U.S. ship and threatened to ram it in order to force it to leave the area.
The US ship had immediately returned to neutral waters after being warned off, the defence ministry said in a statement.
The incident took place in the Peter the Great Gulf, it said.
The Russian ship, from the Pacific Fleet, had been tracking the American destroyer, which Moscow said had violated Russia’s territorial waters at 0317 GMT by going 2 KMs beyond the sea border.
The U.S. destroyer made no further attempts to enter Russian waters after leaving the area, said Moscow.
