What happened next is still in some dispute. The Navy provided a general confirmation but no exact coordinates. That was for a reason: The rules that the United States established prohibited giving certain types of data that led to the deaths of Russian troops or sailors. Legally, that would have made the United States a more direct combatant. Still, the fact was that the United States was getting deeper and deeper into the conflict, walking right up to the line between combatant and noncombatant.
