OREANDA-NEWS The destroyer McCampbell, the US Navy should not be closer than 100 km from the territorial waters of the Russian Federation under the control of anti-submarine ship Pacific fleet, "Admiral Tributs" and Naval aviation. Russian military track the route of the ship-it is 400 km from the coast of the Russian Federation in the Central part of the sea of Japan. On Thursday, the official representative of the defense Ministry major General Igor Konashenkov told reporters.

The Russian defense Ministry expressed "bewilderment with the verbal feat of the representative of the US Navy", who tried to present a demonstrative routine transition of the us destroyer from the area near the territorial waters of the DPRK to the Central part of the sea of Japan.

Konashenkov stressed that in fact, the destroyer URO McCampbell of the US Navy closer than 100 km, not even close to the Russian territorial waters. He noted that the destroyer throughout the transition in international waters followed under the control of the Russian large anti-submarine ship TOF "Admiral tributz", located in close proximity to him, as well as naval aircraft of the Pacific fleet.

According to the General, "if the crew of the American destroyer and "demonstrated" anything", it was his unsuccessful attempt to get away at maximum speed from the accompanying forces of the Pacific fleet.

According to this information, at the present time, the crew of the us Navy USS McCampbell demonstrates its courage in the Central part of the sea of Japan, at a distance of more than 400 km from the territorial waters of the Russian Federation. Konashenkov noted that the forces of the Topf by ground and other means perform a set of measures to control the actions of the destroyer, as well as other warships in this area.

Earlier in the US Navy said that the us missile destroyer McCampbell was held on Wednesday in the vicinity of the Gulf of Peter the Great in Primorye, where the base of the Pacific fleet of Russia.