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World War 3 fears surge as Russia threatens to retaliate after US forces ‘violate’ waters
RUSSIA has demanded the US stop violating its territorial waters and has said it reserves the right to retaliate.
In Soviet times 12-mile territorial water boundary was extended by Soviet government to whole the Peter the Great Gulf in the sea of Japan. US government disagreed and and now disagrees with the boundary.The Russian Foreign Ministry condemned the passage of the USS John S McCain destroyer into Russia’s waters in the Peter the Great Gulf. In their statement, the ministry stated that it sees the US’s move as an open provocation aimed at violating peace and order in the waters.

USS John S. McCain challenges Russia’s claims to Peter the Great Bay in Sea of Japan
Since 2017, the 7th Fleet has steadily increased its freedom-of-navigation operations, which typically target Chinese maritime claims in the South and East China seas.
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The Navy on Tuesday sent another warship to challenge maritime claims in the Western Pacific, this time in an area claimed by Russia, according to a 7th Fleet spokesman.
The guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain, based at Yokosuka, “asserted navigational rights and freedoms in the vicinity of Peter the Great Bay in the Sea of Japan,” with a freedom of navigation operation aimed at challenging Russia’s “excessive maritime claims,” Lt. Joe Keiley said in the statement.
“By conducting this operation, the United States demonstrated that these waters are not Russia's territorial sea and that the United States does not acquiesce in Russia's claim that Peter the Great is a ‘historic bay’ under international law,” Keiley added.