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By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com
One day after the downing of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine, Russia jet fighters aggressively confronted a U.S. surveillance plane in international airspace and chased it into Swedish airspace.
The incident barely registered as a blip in the U.S. news cycle, but Moscow has promoted a story in its domestic media that distracted attention from the incident.
Russia now claims that its Northern Fleet dispatched its anti-submarine assets on Aug. 7 and successfully detected and chased a foreign submarine out of Russia’s boundary waters, the Moscow-based RIA-NOVOSTI news service reported.
On Aug. 7, the patrol forces of the Northern Fleet detected a U.S. Navy Virginia-class submarine, in the Barents Sea, or so a senior Russian military official was quoted as telling RIA-NOVOSTI.
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