The Pentagon has denied reports of approaching aircraft of the Russian Federation videoconferencing with the US Navy destroyer
WASHINGTON, April 10. /Offset. TASS Anatoly Bochinin/. Alleging that repeated overflights by aircraft of the Russian VKS destroyer of naval forces of the USA Donald Cook in the Mediterranean sea is not true. On Tuesday the correspondent of TASS said the representative of the U.S. Department of defense Eric Pahon.
“It is not true. This is a rumor on the Internet”, he replied to a request for comment on information that appeared earlier in the Turkish media, that the Russian planes at least four times, flew over the destroyer in the Mediterranean sea.
Previously, the newspaper The Wall Street Journal reported that at least one missile destroyer, the US Navy went to the coast of Syria, after a meeting Monday at the White house devoted to the alleged chemical attack in the Syrian city of Duma.
The publication did not specify where the us destroyer headed to the coast of Syria. Before this, the US President Donald trump said that Washington has many military options in connection with alleged chemical attack in the Syrian Duma.