Moscow-Sana
The Russian Defense Ministry summoned the military attache of the US Embassy in Moscow against the backdrop of the US destroyer "Chaffee" attempt to violate the Russian maritime borders in the Sea of Japan, stressing that what the destroyer's crew had done was an "unprofessional act".
The ministry said in a statement today: "The General Directorate of International Military Cooperation in the Ministry of Defense summoned the US military attache in Moscow, and the Russian position was conveyed to him regarding the attempted violation by the destroyer Xavi of Russia's borders in the Gulf of Peter the Great."
The ministry stressed that the unprofessional behavior of the destroyer's crew violated the international rules for avoiding ship collision at sea and the provisions of the Russian-American intergovernmental agreement on the prevention of accidents in the open sea and in the airspace above it in 1972.
The ministry had announced that an American destroyer tried to violate the Russian border in the Sea of Japan, and the Russian anti-submarine ship of the Pacific Fleet, Admiral Tributes, confronted it and forced it to retreat.