US Navy Sails up Right to Russia’s Main Pacific Fleet Base in ‘Freedom of Navigation’ Provocation

An American destroyer sailed off the Russian coast, near the Pacific Fleet base in Vladivostok, in a first such stunt since the Cold War. Another US ship is expected in the Black Sea soon, amid tensions between Russia and Ukraine. The USS MCCampbell (DDG-85) went into the vicinity of Peter the Great Bay to “challenge […]