Russian military monitors US missile destroyer

Moscow: Russia’s Black Sea fleet is closely monitoring a US missile destroyer in the sea, the Russian National Defense Control Center has said. “Units of the Black Sea Fleet started tracking the USS Donald Cook, a guided missile destroyer, immediately after it entered the Black Sea,” the center was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency on Saturday. The US vessel entered the Black Sea at 8.50 p.m. (Moscow time), Xinhua reported citing the center. The Pytlivy guard ship is watching actions of the US ship, using electronic and technical surveillance means during the whole period of the ship’s presence in the fleet’s responsibility zone, it said. (IANS)

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