U.S. Navy Uses Videos to Dispute Russian Warship Claims

By Published on June 2, 2015

The Navy released two videos that it says show Russian jets flying by American and Ukrainian warships in the Black Sea in recent days, its latest response to Russian reports the aircraft had forced a U.S. warship to change its course Saturday.

Those reports, first published by Russian news agency RIA Novosti, claimed several Russian Su-24 attack aircraft were scrambled to confront the destroyer USS Ross, whose crew had acted “provocatively and aggressively,” according to an unnamed source.

The Navy had already disputed the reports on Sunday, saying the ship was operating in international waters, had no intention of entering Russian waters and did not change operations. It said the Russian jets appeared to be conducting routine flight operations.

Navy Capt. Brenda Malone, spokeswoman for U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa, said the videos were an effort to show what really happened.

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