Ministry of Defense: the ships Moskva and Admiral Essen are tracking the actions of the US Navy in the Black Sea 
Russian ships Moskva and Admiral Essen ”track the actions of the US Navy in the Black Sea. This was reported on the website of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The Ministry of Defense noted that the US Navy had arrived to conduct unscheduled multinational military exercises. The US guided missile destroyer Porter reportedly left the Georgian port of Batumi on November 10 at 08:56 Moscow time. Then at 09:20 the US Navy ship Mount Whitney left Batumi. Also in the Black Sea is the American tanker John Lenthall.
The department also named the goals of the US military exercises – the development of a possible path of military operations in southeastern Ukraine.
with reconnaissance and strategic aviation in the Black Sea confirm the true goal of the unscheduled multinational exercise: mastering the alleged theater of military operations and, in particular, the territory of Ukraine in case Kiev prepares a military solution in the southeast, “the ministry said in a statement.
Earlier, an E-8C US Air Force reconnaissance aircraft was spotted 35 km from the Russian border over the Black Sea. The E-8C took off from the Ramstein airbase in Germany on Tuesday, November 9, and for five hours and 13 minutes, from 14:15 to 19:28, patrolled at echelons of 7-10 thousand meters over the north-western, central and north-eastern part of the water area.