U.S. Navy Tracks Russian Vessel off Hawaii Coast Near Missile Range
On 5/27/21 at 9:14 AM EDT
The U.S. Pacific fleet is closely tracking a Russian Navy surveillance ship which has been operating off the coast of Hawaii near a crucial American missile range.
The U.S. Naval Institute (USNI) reported that the vessel off the coast of Kauai for the last few days was the Russian Navy Vishnya-class auxiliary general intelligence (AGI) ship
Kareliya.
The ship is operating just outside of U.S. territorial waters, around 13 nautical miles west of the island.
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International waters start at 12 nautical miles from a sovereign coastline.