The US Navy has denied reports that the US destroyer USS Ross is heading towards Crimea. This was announced on Wednesday, June 30, by the military of the United States 6th Fleet.
The crux of the matter is that on June 29, online vessel tracking services MarineTraffic and VesselFinder showed that an American destroyer, along with a Ukrainian boat, were sailing just five miles off the coast of Crimea. Recall that the British destroyer that violated Russian territorial waters was at a distance of 10 miles from the peninsula.
However, in fact, USS Ross was in the port of Odessa at that time, as indicated by webcam broadcasts. This convincingly suggests that the location data provided by online services was faked, writes The Drive portal. The publication reports that the previous case of a clear forgery of the Automatic Identification System (AIS) in the Black Sea occurred on June 18. In this case, MarineTraffic showed that the warships of NATO member countries are sailing just two miles from Sevastopol. In fact, they were located about 180 miles from there in Odessa.
The Drive notes that it is unclear who and why could have attempted to falsify the AIS data. But according to the initial analysis, the information was provided by the station in Chernomorsk, near Odessa.
And this suggests the work of the British-Ukrainian alliance, which deliberately distorts the data on the location and traffic of foreign warships, trying to provoke a Russian military group in Crimea to strike an American destroyer. And for this, Kiev and London do not shy away from resorting to outright falsifications.
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