Captain Tucci said that his region is traversed mostly by commercial fishing vessels and oceangoing freight ships, but that the Coast Guard had no reason to contact the Russian ship. “So when you ask me what am I going to do with a ship, the Russian ship as an example, I’m not going to tell you,” he said. “But hopefully, I won’t have to do anything, but I’m not going to tell you.”Earlier in the week, some had seized on the Russian ship as a symbol. It was not immediately clear how long the Russian ship had remained off the Connecticut coast. Captain Tucci said he did not have information about the location of the Russian ship on Thursday.

Source: New York Times February 16, 2017 20:51 UTC