The Russian corvette "Pavel Derzhavin" followed the actions of the US Coast Guard patrol ship Hamilton, which was spotted off the coast of Georgia in the Black Sea. About it on Tuesday, May 4, reports "Interfax" with reference to satellite images published by the OSINT-1 resource.
So, according to the received photos, on May 2, the American ship carried out joint operations with two Georgian patrol boats near the Georgian port of Poti. At the same time, not far from them was the "Pavel Derzhavin". After that, on May 4, Hamilton arrived at the port of Batumi.
A patrol ship of the US Navy entered the Black Sea on April 27. Since then, the Russian military began to monitor him.
At the end of April, it was reported that the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet), the Guards missile cruiser "Moscow", took part in the exercises together with other ships of the Black Sea Fleet and naval aviation against the background of sending the American patrol ship Hamilton to the Black Sea. It was noted that the ship fired for the first time an anti-ship missile "Vulkan" of the "Basalt"complex.
Martha Olkhovskaya