Sir Keir Starmer has called on European leaders to strengthen their defences against potential Russian sabotage of vital ...

Sir Keir Starmer urged Europe’s leaders to do more to counter Vladimir Putin’s attempts to sabotage vital undersea cables.

The Indian Navy’s latest guided missile stealth frigate, INS Tushil, last week called in South Africa while on her maiden ...

Yantar is one of more than 50 vessels operated by Russia ... the use of such overt assets would deny Putin so-called “plausible deniability”. He added: "Russia’s maritime doctrine, which ...

“Russia’s use of the so-called shadow fleet poses a particular ... Russia describes Yantar as an oceanic research vessel. Over the years it has been spotted near undersea cables.

The ship, known as Yantar, is operated by a Russian Ministry ... have centred on an oil tanker believed to be part of Russia’s so-called shadow fleet. While the Washington Post has since ...

The Kremlin is suspected of deploying the vessel to stalk the seabed, gathering intelligence that could be used in acts of ...

Russia describes Yantar as an oceanic research vessel and it is operated by the ... But Grant Shapps, the former Conservative defence secretary called on the government to impound ships it ...

This week, the Royal Navy spotted the Russian spy ship, the Yantar, sailing toward the English Channel on its way back from the Mediterranean Sea. London dispatched a frigate to intercept the ...

It was believed Yantar was loitering over undersea cables. For the second time in just weeks, an alleged Russian spy ship has entered UK waters, the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on ...