US denies finishing up army operations in Russian territorial waters

The United States on Saturday denied that it had carried out army operations in Russian territorial waters, after Moscow mentioned a Russian naval vessel chased away a US submarine in Russian waters within the Pacific.

Russia accused Washington of breaking worldwide legislation and making a nationwide safety menace over the incident at a time of excessive tensions between Moscow and Washington over a Russian army buildup close to Ukraine.Interfax information company cited the Russian Defence Ministry as saying a Russian naval vessel chased away a US submarine in Russian waters within the Pacific after the submarine ignored the ship’s orders to floor.READ: US to evacuate Ukraine embassy amid Russian invasion fears”There is no truth to the Russian claims of our operations in their territorial waters,” Captain Kyle Raines, a US army spokesman, mentioned in an announcement.”I will not comment on the precise location of our submarines but we do fly, sail, and operate safely in international waters,” the assertion added.It is frequent for the United States to watch army exercise being carried out by different nations with out having to enter their territorial waters.The crew of the Marshal Shaposhnikov frigate used “corresponding means” to make the submarine go away Russian waters, the Russian Defence Ministry was quoted as saying.It mentioned it had referred to as within the US defence attache over the incident.The submarine was noticed close to the Kuril Islands early on Saturday as Russia was conducting naval workout routines with its Pacific Fleet and it was ordered to floor instantly, the Russian ministry was quoted as saying.It mentioned the order was ignored by the US submarine’s crew, main the Russian frigate to take unspecified motion to make it go away.”The US submarine … left Russian territorial waters at maximum speed,” the Defence Ministry was quoted as saying.It was not clear particularly the place Russia claimed the incident happened, however a part of the Kuril Islands chain is claimed by Japan and the territorial dispute over among the islands dates again to the time when the then-Soviet Union seized them on the finish of World War Two.Russia’s defence minister spoke by phone together with his US counterpart on Saturday because the United States and different Western nations warned that conflict in Ukraine might ignite at any second.US President Joe Biden and Russia’s Vladimir Putin additionally spoke for an hour by cellphone later within the day to debate Ukraine however based on the Kremlin, the submarine incident was not introduced up.ALSO READ: Leave, Russia might invade any day: US warns Americans in UkraineALSO READ: Russia accuses West of spreading disinformation after US warns of Ukraine invasion