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- Georgie English, Foreign News Reporter
- Published: 13:32, 22 Jan 2025
- Updated: 13:34, 22 Jan 2025
A RUSSIAN spy vas is being intimately tracked by the Royal Navy aft reappearing successful the English Channel.
Vladimir Putin has present been warned "we spot you & we’ll instrumentality action" aft the probe and quality ship, known arsenic Yantar, has been seen loitering adjacent to Britain for the 2nd clip successful months.
Defence Secretary John Healey said this was the 2nd clip the Russian spy vas had entered UK waters successful caller months, noting the vessel was besides intimately watched successful November.
Defence Secretary John Healey told MPs: “It was detected loitering implicit UK captious undersea infrastructure.
2To deter immoderate imaginable threat, I took measured steps past arsenic portion of a wide nonstop effect to the Russian vessel.
"“RAF maritime patrol craft alongside HMS Cattistock, HMS Tyne and RFA Proteus were deployed to shadiness Yantar’s each movement.
“Today, I besides wanted to corroborate to the House that 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.”
Mr Healey besides sent a nonstop connection to Putin saying: "We spot you, we cognize what you’re doing and we volition not shy distant from robust enactment to support this country.”