HMS Mersey shadows Russian ships for the fourth time in two months, but the navy says it is "routine business". A Royal Navy warship has escorted several Russian ships through the English Channel over the bank holiday weekend.
The incident - described as "routine business" for the navy - is the fourth such incident in the past two months,. The Portsmouth-based patrol vessel was tasked to locate, monitor and escort intelligence ship Vasily Tatishchev and the depot ship PM A Russian tug and the frigate Severomorsk were also shadowed.
HMS Mersey is one of four River Class patrol ships, three of which conduct fishery protection, general patrols and other maritime security duties around the UK. Foreign Office expels Russian diplomat in tit-for-tat move after 'spying' row. Volodymyr Zelenskyy says any peacekeeping force for Ukraine without US troops would be 'major mistake'. Russian spies accused of orchestrating bomb attacks on Ukrainian army offices. In January a Royal Navy frigate closely shadowed a Russian warship which was sailing through British waters on its way back from Syria.
In April the navy kept a " vigilant watch" on two Russian warships as they passed through the English Channel. And a month later navy warships shadowed a surfaced Russian submarine through the Strait of Dover. Royal Navy escorts Russian ships through English Channel HMS Mersey shadows Russian ships for the fourth time in two months, but the navy says it is "routine business".
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