Foreign subs detected near Russian Pacific military exercises

The Russian navy has detected foreign submarines in waters near large-scale military exercises taking place off Russia's Pacific Coast, the navy chief said Monday.

Some 75 Russian ships, over 20 aircraft and around 30,000 troops and civilian experts have been conducting 10 days of exercises that will end Thursday, Russia's largest military manoeuvres for 15 years.

The submarines were spotted Saturday off the Primorye region coast and Monday near the Kamchatka peninsula, Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov told reporters, without naming the countries they belonged to.

"We are in full control of the situation and are ready to cooperate with our observers," Kuroyedov said.

"These submarines are probably replacing the observers that certain countries did not send," he added.

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and tat's all you need to know :evilgrin: