International security

Russia Threatens to Use ‘All Necessary Measures’ Against US Aggression

A Russian ambassador to NATO said that Russia would deploy “all necessary measures” against American aggression, citing the sailing of a US destroyer in the Baltic Sea as an act of intimidation. 

On April 11, Russian aircrafts had made a close encounter with an American Navy destroyer in international waters, with both sides accusing the other of aggression. 

“This is about attempts to exercise military pressure on Russia,” the envoy, Alexander Grushko, said, according to Reuters. “We will take all necessary measures, precautions, to compensate for these attempts to use military force,” he told reporters.

The US said that the Navy destroyer was just making a routine trip to Poland, and that the flight of the Russian jets near the ship constituted “harassment.”