Russia sends spy ship near US coast, deploys banned missiles at home, officials say - Fox News

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Russia sends spy ship near US coast, deploys banned missiles at home, officials say
By Lucas Tomlinson Published February 14, 2017 FoxNews.com

he Russian spy ship was in international waters, 70 miles off the coast of Delaware and heading north at 10 knots, according to one official. The U.S. territory line is 12 nautical miles.

It was not immediately clear where the Russian spy ship is headed.

Hours later, a U.S. official confirmed to Fox News that Russia had deployed ground-launched cruise missiles to two locations inside the country. The New York Times first reported that the Obama administration had previously seen the missiles -- then in a testing phase -- as a violation of a 1987 treaty between the U.S. and Russia that banned ground-launched intermediate-range missiles.

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