Just been told this. The ‘Saint Peter’ was on excercise with elements of the Pacific Forces planning to stage an amphibious assault on Ostrov Sakhalin which is East of Russia, North of Japan to simulate the “re-taking of the main island from a foreign power”…I assume this means Japan. She was carrying live ammo as part of the assault, the rockets would be used for shore bombardment prior to the “Pubr” beaching. The excercise invloved two other “Pubr”s, two mine warfare vessels (I assume these were “Natya” not the newer “Sonya” type), and two “Polnochony” class landing craft and two frigates of unknown type (will get back to u on that). Given the ‘Saint Peters’ speed and location she recieved the order to intercept the unknown.
The Captain of the ‘Saint Peter’ did it seems try to make contact with the Najin in order to find out what she was doing there but there was no reply.
Also, the Russian Navy has still not offically acknowledged the incident took place but has admitted that a foreign vessel did enter territorial waters on August 8th.