The Pentagon is downplaying the arrival of four Russian Navy ships in Cuba although U.S. Navy ships shadowed them as they made their way to Havana.
The Pentagon is downplaying Wednesday's arrival of four Russian Navy ships inas U.S. officials acknowledge that U.S. Navy ships "actively monitored" the Russian ships as they made their way to a port of call in Havana.
The Russian ships' transit towards Cuba was monitored by six warships from the United States Navy, Canada, and France. They included the U.S. Navy destroyers USS Donald Cook, USS Delbert Black, USS Truxton, U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Stone, the Canadian frigate HMCS Ville de Quebec, and a French Lafayette class frigate.
A U.S. official said the Russian ships never came close to the American coastline as they transited the Atlantic Ocean.
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