Any source for that? It is typical and disgusting the media hasn’t covered this.
It was like sending an M1-A2 Abrams tank to deliver a birthday card. We just had a Cuba blockade moment and no one knew it. The Russians apparently decided not to toe the line.
There is a discussion of the ships supposedly involved at
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/08/us-warships-run.html
Apparently they were there for a previously planned exercise, but were “conveniently” in position for this.
Reuters has a picture of the USS McFaul, trailed by the Polish Navy vessel ORP Gen. Pulaski, on the way to Batumi.