The Portuguese air force says that it has detected 25 Russian ships this month in its vast coastal waters.
Portuguese ships and aircraft spent nine days escorting Russian navy ships through the country's vast coastal waters this month.Photographs released on Tuesday by the Portuguese navy showed its forces shadowing the Russian frigate class leader Neustrashimy and the Altay-class replenishment vessel Yelnya down its Atlantic coast from August 10 to 19. Both are both in service with the Baltic Fleet, headquartered in Russia's Kaliningrad stronghold.
The Russian ships spent over 140 hours, nearly six days, in Portugal's exclusive economic waters off the continent and near the Azores, an autonomous archipelago of Portugal, its statement said.The Ivan Gren, built in Kaliningrad and homeported in Severomorsk, inside the Arctic Circle, also sailed through Portugal's continental EEZ, it said.
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