Putin warned after Royal Navy tracks 'spy' ship that entered UK waters for second time in months

A Russian "spy" vessel has been monitored by the Royal Navy aft it entered UK waters earlier this week, the defence caput has said - arsenic helium issued a informing to President Vladimir Putin.

The vessel, called Yantar, has been utilized for gathering quality and mapping the UK's captious underwater infrastructure, John Healey told MPs.

The UK and its NATO allies are progressively acrophobic astir the hazard that President Putin's state poses to offshore cables, pipelines and different infrastructure.

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Mr Healey said Yantar entered the "UK exclusive economical portion astir 45 miles disconnected the British coast" connected Monday.

He said that for the past 2 days, the Royal Navy has deployed Type 23 frigate HMS Somerset and patrol vessel HMS Tyne to "monitor the vas each infinitesimal done our waters".

In a nonstop connection to Mr Putin, helium said: "We spot you, we cognize what you're doing and we volition not shy distant from robust enactment to support this country."

Navy rules of engagement changed

The defence caput said helium changed the navy's rules of engagement truthful "our warships tin get person and amended way the Yantar".

He said the vessel "has complied with planetary rules of navigation" and has since sailed into the North Sea.

Russia has said Yantar is an oceanographic probe vessel which is operated by its defence ministry.

Second incidental successful months

Mr Healey told the House of Commons it was the 2nd clip Yantar had entered British waters successful caller months, aft it was detected successful November "loitering implicit captious undersea infrastructure".

Back then, a Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarine was utilized to pass disconnected the "spy" ship.

'Monitoring its each move'

RAF maritime patrol aircraft, minehunter HMS Cattistock, offshore patrol vas HMS Tyne and surveillance vessel RFA Proteus were besides deployed "to shadiness Yantar's each movement".

Mr Healey added: "I authorised a Royal Navy submarine, strictly arsenic a deterrent measure, to aboveground adjacent to Yantar to marque wide that we had been covertly monitoring its each move.

"The vessel past near UK waters without further loitering and sailed down to the Mediterranean."

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Mr Healey warned: "Russia remains the astir pressing and contiguous menace to Britain, and I privation to guarantee the House and the British radical that immoderate menace volition beryllium met with spot and resolve."

P-8 Poseidon and Rivet Joint spy planes volition articulation the NATO cognition to support undersea cabling successful the Baltic Sea, portion RFA Proteus has besides been deployed to show offshore infrastructure.