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NBC News: US Navy sends ships to Russia’s Barents Sea for first time since 1980s

By NBC News.

Published May 5, 2020 at 8:07 am

This handout photo taken and released by the US Navy on June 1, 2017 shows the Carl Vinson strike group, including the USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70-in foreground), during a joint navel drill with the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76-in background) and Japanese ships in the Sea of Japan (also known as the East Sea), off the Korean peninsula where a North Korean missile landed during a test fire on May 29. - A pair of US aircraft carriers and Japanese naval vessels conducted a joint drill in waters off the Korean peninsula on June 1, in an apparent show of force days after the latest North Korean ballistic missile test.

Photo by AFP

Four U.S. Navy ships entered the Barents Sea off Russia‘s northwestern Arctic coast Monday — the first time U.S. warships have entered the area since the 1980s — according to a statement Monday from the Navy’s 6th Fleet.