US Coast Guard tracking suspected Russian spy ship off coast of Hawaii in international waters

The US Coast Guard says it’s monitoring a suspected Russian spy ship off the coast of Hawaii in worldwide waters as heightened tensions between Washington and Moscow stay over Russian’s struggle in Ukraine.

“In latest weeks, the U.S. Coast Guard has continued to watch a Russian vessel, believed to be an intelligence gathering ship, off the coast of the Hawaiian Islands,” the USCG stated in a information launch.

The Coast Guard famous the state of affairs will not be uncommon however that it’s monitoring it carefully. “Whereas international navy vessels might transit freely by the U.S. financial unique zone (EEZ), as per customary worldwide legal guidelines, foreign-flagged navy vessels have typically been noticed working and loitering inside Coast Guard District Fourteen’s space of response,” the discharge said.

This isn’t the primary time suspected Russia spy ships have sailed off the coast of the US. In 2019, a Russian spy ship off the southeastern coast of the US was noticed working in what two US officers instructed CNN was an “unsafe method.”

The actions of the Viktor Leonov, a Russian surveillance ship crusing off the coast of South Carolina and Florida, had been decided to be unsafe as a result of it was not utilizing working lights in low visibility climate and was not responding to business vessels’ makes an attempt to speak to keep away from potential accidents.

The USCG stated within the launch that it “continues to coordinate with Division of Protection companions, offering updates to international vessel actions and actions and to appropriately meet presence with presence to encourage worldwide maritime norms.”