Panama ? Panama said its canal is open to all, including a Russian warship sailing through the transoceanic waterway on Friday.

The destroyer Admiral Chabanenko is the first Soviet or Russian military ship to traverse the 50-mile waterway since World War II.

The U.S. government has shown little concern about the destroyer’s trip through a canal that was off limits to the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

The destroyer’s journey to the Western Hemisphere, however, reflects Russia’s growing influence and anger with the U.S. for using warships to deliver aid to Georgia after its August war with Russia.