Russia chases off US warship in row over waters in the Sea of Japan

Russia said its Pacific Fleet warship had been tracking the American destroyer in the Peter the Great Gulf

Russia said on Tuesday one of its warships caught and chased off a U.S. destroyer operating illegally in its territorial waters in the Sea of Japan, but the U.S. Navy denied wrongdoing by its vessel and accused Moscow of making excessive maritime claims.
 
The Admiral Vinogradov, a Russian destroyer, verbally warned USS John S. McCain, a U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer, and threatened to ram it in order to force it to leave the area, prompting it to return to neutral waters, Moscow said.
 
Russia said its Pacific Fleet warship had been tracking the American destroyer in the Peter