A Royal Navy attack submarine surfaced close to a Russian spy ship off the UK coast in an extraordinary warning to stop spying on British undersea cables, the defence secretary has revealed.
U.K. Defense Secretary John Healey on Wednesday issued a warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin after reporting a Russian spy ship had entered ... a Royal Navy submarine "strictly as a ...
“I authorised a Royal Navy submarine, strictly as a deterrent measure, to surface close to Yantar to make clear that we had been covertly monitoring its every move. “The ship then left UK ...
Two months ago, a UK submarine that was secretly tracking a Russian spy ship hanging around undersea cables in British waters surfaced close to the vessel, forcing it to leave the area ...
A UK submarine quietly tracked a Russian spy ship hanging around undersea cables in British waters last fall and then surfaced close to force the vessel to leave, the UK Ministry of Defense shared ...
He added the ship was now in the North Sea, "having passed through British waters." Healey said a Royal Navy submarine was authorized to surface close to the Yantar "strictly as a deterrent ...