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A Russian spy ship was on the sting of United Kingdom waters, British protection officers stated.
John Healey, the protection secretary, stated it was the second time that the ship, the Yantar, had been deployed to UK waters, SKY News reported.
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Britain’s Defense Secretary John Healey, backdropped by a display displaying a picture of Russian navy ship Yantar, working off the northern coast of Scotland, delivers a speech within the Downing Street briefing room in central London on Wednesday. (Getty Images)
“This is a vessel designed for gathering intelligence and mapping our undersea cables,” he stated throughout a information convention. “We deployed a Royal Navy frigate and RAF planes to observe and monitor this vessel’s each transfer, throughout which the Yantar directed lasers at our pilots.
Healey warned Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying: “we see you, we all know what you are doing, and if the Yantar travels south this week, we’re prepared.”
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Healey’s warning got here following a report by the Commons Defence Committee, which stated that the UK “lacks a plan for defending the homeland and abroad territories” because it urged the federal government to launch a “co-ordinated effort to speak with the general public on the extent of menace we face,” the information outlet reported.
The Yantar is not simply a part of a naval operation however a part of Moscow’s Main Directorate of Deep-Sea Research, or GUGI, which primarily works in surveillance in peacetime and sabotage throughout conflicts.
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“That is why we have been decided, at any time when the Yantar comes into British wider waters, we monitor it, we deter it and we are saying to Putin we’re prepared, and we do this alongside allies,” stated Healey.
