"The forces and assets of the Black Sea Fleet have begun tracking the actions of the destroyer URO" Ross "of the US Navy, which entered the Black Sea on February 23, 2020 at 18:30 Moscow time," TASS reports the military.

The destroyer Ross, equipped with Tomahawk cruise missiles and the Aegis missile defense system, is deployed permanently in Europe at the Spanish military base in Rota.

It was previously reported that the new budget of the U.S. Navy for the upcoming fiscal year provides for the purchase by 850 of 850 of the latest anti-ship cruise missiles.