Navy disputes Russia’s claims that it chased a US sub out of its waters – By Howard Altman, Galina Tishchenko, Jim Heintz, The Associated Press and Aamer Madhani, The Associated Press (Military Times) / February 12, 2022
The Russian Ministry of Defense claims a U.S. Navy Virginia-class submarine left Russian territorial waters Saturday after that country’s navy took “appropriate” actions.
The U.S. Navy says the incident just didn’t happen.
The Russian ministry said it summoned the U.S. embassy’s military attache after its navy detected an American submarine in Russian waters near the Kuril Islands in the Pacific. The submarine declined orders to leave, but departed after the navy used unspecified “appropriate means,” the ministry said.
The U.S. submarine was operating in an area where the Russian navy was conducting military exercises in Russian Federation national waters near the island of Urup in the Kuril archipelago at 10:40 am Moscow time, the MOD claimed.
