• A suspected Russian spy ship traveling near Hawaii has been tracked for the past several weeks, the U.S. Coast Guard said in a recent press release.
• “In recent weeks, the U.S. Coast Guard has continued to monitor a Russian vessel, believed to be an intelligence gathering ship, off the coast of the Hawaiian Islands,” the announcement read.
• “While foreign military vessels may transit freely through the U.S. economic exclusive zone (EEZ), as per customary international laws, foreign-flagged military vessels have often been observed operating and loitering within Coast Guard District Fourteen’s area of response.”

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