UK issues warning to Putin over Russian spy ship spotted near British waters

Defence Secretary John Healey has told Vladimir Putin ‘we spot you, we cognize what you’re doing’ aft revealing a Russian spy vessel has been disconnected the British seashore for 2 days.

In a connection to Parliament this afternoon, helium said the vessel Yantar has been spotted ‘loitering implicit UK captious undersea infrastructure’ since arriving astatine the commencement of the week.

Healey told MPs: ‘Let maine beryllium clear, this is simply a Russian spy vessel utilized for gathering quality and mapping the UK’s captious underwater infrastructure.

‘Yantar entered the UK exclusive economical portion astir 45 miles disconnected the British seashore connected Monday.’

RAF maritime patrol craft person been deployed alongside 3 ships from the Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary to shadiness its ‘every movement’, helium said.

After Healey authorised a Navy submarine to aboveground adjacent ‘to marque wide that we had been covertly monitoring its each move’, Yantar near UK waters and began travelling towards the Mediterranean.

The defence caput reported that it is presently successful the North Sea.

He added: ‘I besides wanted President Putin to perceive this message: we spot you, we cognize what you’re doing and we volition not shy distant from robust enactment to support this country.’

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