Marina británica intercepta corbeta y petrolero rusos en medio de alza de actividad naval de Moscú – Chicago Tribune
By DANICA KIRKA
LONDON (AP) — A United Kingdom patrol boat intercepted a Russian sailboat and an oil tanker en route to the Channel Canal, Britain’s Defense Ministry said, adding that Russian naval activity beyond U.K. waters had increased by 30 percent in the past two years. years.
Over the past week, the patrol boat HMS Severn intercepted the Russian trash RFN Stoikiy and the tanker Yelnya while sailing in the Channel Canal, the ministry said. El Severn finally entered the surveillance zones with an unidentified NATO alias opposite the coast of Brittany.
In addition to the barges stationed near the coast of the United Kingdom, British forces deployed three Poseidon surveillance planes to Iceland as part of a NATO mission to patrol the hunt for Russian barges and submarines in the North Atlantic and the Arctic, the ministry reported.
The news came days after Defense Secretary John Healey told reporters that Russian spy Yantar had lasers on surveillance plane pilots who monitored their activities off the Escocia coast. The UK described Yantar’s actions as “reckless and criminal”, adding that he was on the list to respond to any incursions into its territory.
“My message to Russia and to Putin is this: We’ve seen them. We know we’re doing it,” Healey told the college.
The Russian embassy in London responded to Healey’s comments accusing the British government of “fomenting militarist history”, adding that Moscow was not interested in the UK’s security.
Healey issued the advertisement when he defended the increase in waste by defending a week before the public government was at his new presupposition.
Since Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised big increases in the military budget in light of the states of Russia, China and Iran, the government faces difficult decisions to take into account taxes and spending accounts to reduce the multi-million pound deficit in its finances.
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This story was translated into English by an AP editor with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool.
