{"id":427096,"date":"2024-12-03T00:26:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T00:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=427096"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Philippine-president-says-Russian-submarine-worrisome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Philippine-president-says-Russian-submarine-worrisome\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippine president says Russian submarine &#8216;worrisome&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos on Monday described as &#8220;very worrisome&#8221; the presence of a Russian attack submarine off the country&#8217;s coast in the disputed South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>The UFA 490 submarine was spotted 148 kilometres (92 miles) west of Cape Calavite on Thursday, the Philippine military said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any intrusion into the West Philippine Sea, of our EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone), of our baselines is very worrisome,&#8221; Marcos told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines dispatched a plane and a warship to the submarine, where the crew said they were awaiting good weather before proceeding to Russia&#8217;s Vladivostok, the Philippine Navy said in a Monday statement.<\/p>\n<p>Roy Vincent Trinidad, spokesman for the navy in the South China Sea, said the incident is &#8220;not alarming&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we were surprised because this is a very unique submarine,&#8221; he told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>The 74-metre (243-foot) long vessel is armed with a missile system that has a range of 12,000 kilometres, according to Russia&#8217;s state-run TASS news agency.<\/p>\n<p>The submarine was last seen in Philippine waters on Sunday, Trinidad said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s embassy in Manila and the Philippine foreign ministry did not immediately respond to AFP requests to comment on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>pam\/rsc<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/e10e82964ab6191475829cfda3c84ee7.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>The Russian submarine, pictured on November 28 by the Philippine military<\/p>\n<p>-Handout<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos on Monday described as &#8220;very worrisome&#8221; the presence of a Russian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23812],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}