It is reported that the ship arrived in the Black Sea and started moving towards the Ukrainian Odessa. Earlier, the ship was on the roads in the Albanian port of Vlora. The destroyer's leadership confirmed that it had arrived in the Mediterranean Sea to ensure the security of its European allies.
The vessel crossed the Bosporus under the cover of night.
The ship itself is patrolling the African coast, the ship's base is located on the NATO base in the Spanish port of Rota. This is the same destroyer, who last fall made a missile attack on the Syrian port of Shayrat. US leadership launched a strike in response to the bombing of Assad's city of Khan-Sheikhum by chemical shells.
As reported in "Ura-Inform", recently the US destroyer USS Hopper DDG-70 without permission entered the Chinese territorial waters of China.