The American destroyer, which is equipped with 90 long-range guided missiles, approached a distance of about two kilometers and began to threaten the ship Admiral Vinogradov. Through the international communication channel, it warned the ship’s crew against the inadmissibility of these actions and the possible use of force.
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It was said that the Russians could use a taran to displace the border breaker. It is a maneuver aimed at hitting and piercing the hull of an enemy ship to draw water and sink. After this warning and also after Admiral Vinogradov changed course to a destroyer, the vessel returned to neutral waters, writes TASS.
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The Russian Ministry of Defense emphasized that it was one maneuver of the destroyer, it did not try to repeatedly enter the Russian territorial waters. “Repeated attempts to enter Russian waters were not made by the American destroyer,” the Ministry of Defense said in a report.
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