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‘Are we getting invaded?’: U.S. boats faced Russian aggression near Alaska
Russia has escalated its provocative encounters in the North Pacific this year, harassing boats in U.S. fishing waters and sending bombers toward Alaska’s shores.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The crew of the Bristol Leader was laying out its long cod-catching line well within U.S. fishing territory in the Bering Sea when a voice crackled over the…
- Mike Baker, The New York Times/Boston
The ship was in danger, it said, and needed to move.
The warnings, coming in a mixture of Russian and accented English from a plane buzzing overhead, grew more specific and more urgent.
There was a submarine nearby, the voice said.
Missiles were being…