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The Russian National Center for Defense Management said that the Black Sea Fleet ships control the actions of the destroyer.

The Ross destroyer, equipped with Tomahawk cruise missiles and the Aegis missile defense system, along with the US naval destroyers Porter, Donald Cook and Carney, is deployed on a permanent basis in Europe at the Spanish military base in Rota. These ships, together with the Aegis missile defense ground bases in Poland and Romania, are part of the program for building a European phased adaptive missile defense system.

US destroyers have repeatedly entered the Black Sea.

According to the Montreux Convention, the time spent by ships of non-Black Sea countries in the Black Sea is limited to 21 days.