WASHINGTON — The United States on Saturday denied that it had carried out military operations in Russian territorial waters, after Moscow said a Russian naval vessel chased away a U.S. submarine in Russian waters in the Pacific. ADVERTISEMENTInterfax news agency cited the Russian Defense Ministry as saying a Russian naval vessel chased away a U.S. submarine in Russian waters in the Pacific after the submarine ignored the ship’s orders to surface. “There is no truth to the Russian claims of our operations in their territorial waters,” Captain Kyle Raines, a U.S. military spokesman, said in a statement. The crew of the Marshal Shaposhnikov frigate used “corresponding means” to make the submarine leave Russian waters, the Russian Defense Ministry was quoted as saying. “The U.S. submarine … left Russian territorial waters at maximum speed,” the Defense Ministry was quoted as saying.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer February 13, 2022 02:23 UTC