Direct control over the actions of the US Navy ship in the Black Sea is carried out by the frigate Admiral Essen, as well as the small missile ships Vyshny Volochek and Orekhovo-Zuevo.

Earlier, the Black Sea Fleet of Russia took the US Navy ship Yuma, which entered the Black Sea, to escort.

On September 12, the Novy Sevastopol online newspaper, citing the BSF press service, reported that the small anti-submarine ships Muromets and Suzdalets of the Black Sea Fleet had worked out a control search and destruction of a conditional enemy submarine.