The US fleet has yet to comment on the move, however, the Pentagon has recently been boosting its naval presence near Russia’s territorial waters, with the USS Donald Cook guided-missile destroyer entering the Black Sea over the weekend.
The Russian military has announced that the Baltic Fleet’s corvettes have been monitoring two US destroyers in the area.
According to the statement released by the Russian National Defence Management Centre, Russia’s “Boykiy” and “Soobrazitelny” warships have been escorting the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers USS Porter and USS Gravely in the Baltic Sea.
“The forces of the Baltic Fleet took Gravely and Porter, the destroyers of the US Navy that entered the southern part of the Baltic Sea, under escort. Russian Navy corvettes Boiky and Soobrazitelny are monitoring the actions of the US ships”, the Russian National Defence Management Centre said Monday.