By Will Stewart; The Mirror:
Three heavily armed Russian warships have again tested NATO by sailing close to the tiny Baltic state of Latvia.
Military officials in the Latvian capital Riga said the corvettes – Liven 551, Serpukhov 603 and Morshansk 824 – were detected just four nautical miles from the state’s territorial waters.
It was the latest in a series of moves by Vladimir Putin‘s naval forces seen as testing the response of the small Baltic state, a NATO and EU member.
The move on Sunday was linked today to the arrival in the Baltic Sea of US warship, USS Carney, with cruise missiles on board.
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CARIBBEAN (April 4, 2007) – The guided missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64) underway in the Caribbean during a training exercise. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Vincent J. Street (RELEASED)
The three Russian vessels had been deployed to St Petersburg ahead of the country’s annual war commemoration on 9 May, known as Victory Day.
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