Defense
A Russian intelligence-gathering ship is again plying
the waters off the southern United States in operations aimed at spying on U.S.
ballistic missile submarines based in the area, defense officials said.
The intelligence collection ship, Viktor Leonov, has
been closely watched by U.S. Navy ships and aircraft for the past several days
near Jacksonville, Fla., close to the Naval Submarine Base at Kings Bay, Ga.
The ship also conducted operations there in April.
The spying comes amid heightened U.S.-Russia tensions
over the crisis in Ukraine, where Russian forces annexed the Crimea last year
and are continuing to arm pro-Moscow rebels in the eastern part of the country.
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