The US Coast Guard has been tracking a Russian ship “believed to be an intelligence collection ship” off the coast of Hawaii in recent weeks, officials said Wednesday.
The ship and other foreign-flagged military vessels have been “operating and loitering” in the Coast Guard District Fourteen response area.
“As part of our daily operations, we track all vessels in the Pacific area through surface and air assets and joint agency capabilities,” Cmdr. Dave Milne, chief of External Affairs, said in a statement.
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A Russian ship has been sighted off the coast of Hawaii in recent weeks.
(US Coast Guard)
The Coast Guard did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday about how long the Russian ship has been near Hawaii. Video posted Tuesday showed the ship in waters off the coast of Hawaii on January 11.
Last September, the Honolulu-based Kimball encountered four Russian warships and three Chinese ships during a routine patrol in the Bering Sea off Alaska.
Russian planes have also been tracked off the coast of Alaska and Canada in recent months.
A Kimball Coast Guard crew member views a foreign warship in the Bering Sea on September 19, 2022.
(US Coast Guard District 17 via AP)
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Two Russian maritime patrol aircraft were detected in the Alaskan and Canadian Air Defense Identification Zones (ADIZ) on 11 September.
In the previous month, Russian surveillance planes had been detected twice in the US ADIZ in a two-day period.
