@SatanBurger Not "to Russia" but apparently to somewhere near Russia... which is hardly difficult seeing as the country's Northern coast encircles about half the globe at that latitude.
Where they really are is of course secret, and even Trump might not know the boat's actual positions and patrol courses. Even most of crew of a submarine are probably not told where their own vessel is or where it is going.
No navy ever says where their submarines are; but all are continually searching for their potential enemies. Not by sonar pings either - that dead give-away of the searcher's own position and course is a fantasy by Hollywood and the more ignorant "green" campaigners, though based on World War Two destroyers using ASDIC for hunting enemy submarines.
The Russians rather dismissed Trump's claimed order because it is rather meaningless. The two navies know perfectly well they are playing cat-and-mouse with each other.
