Royal Navy Shadows three Russian ships via the sleeve of the sleeve
THE Royal Navy obscured three Russian ships through the Sleeve channelFollowing the warnings of the possible attempts to map the critical submarine infrastructure of the United Kingdom.
British Minehunter HMS Cattistock and a Wildcat helicopter were deployed on Wednesday to escort the admiral of Russia Vladimerskiy – an oceanographic investigation ship – while traveling along the southern coast of the United Kingdom.
The British Mine Hunter worked in close contact with the helicopter to “keep a constant clock” while the Russian survey ship crossed the busy shipping lane, said Royal Navy.
This operation was quickly followed by another, since HMS Somerset and Tanker RFA Tidesurge were lined up to escort the Russian landing ship Alexander Otrakovsky and the MV Ascalon merchant ship through the channel and the North Sea.
The couple of Russian ships was sailing to the Baltic Sea and recently left the Mediterranean.
The latter operations follow a similar mission last week that saw war ships and the Royal Navy helicopters follow a group of Russian activities that returned from Syria, where the questions remain over The fate of the precious point of Vladimir Putin at the Mordace naval baseAfter the Bashar al-Assad Moscow regime. Drastically collapsed in December.
HMS Somerset has been activated to monitor the Russian convoys that return from the Mediterranean three times only in the month and recently visited Aberdeen to refuel for their last mission.
The latter interaction between the Royal Navy and a Russian investigation ship comes a few weeks after the British defense secretary John Healey has revealed to the parliamentarians that another Russian survey ship – the Free – He had been carefully monitored by Royal Navy after entering the United Kingdom waters both in January and in November.
“I would like to be clear, this is a Russian spy ship used to collect intelligence and map the critical submarine infrastructures of the United Kingdom”, the defense secretary He told the Chamber of Municipalities in January.
Revealing that he has changed the rules of engagement of the Royal Navy to allow British war ships to keep track more closely FreeHealey said: “I also wanted President Putin to listen to this message: we see you, we know what you are doing and we will not avoid robust actions to protect this country”.
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