The British Ministry of Defence is investigating reports that a Russian warship fired warning shots toward a civilian yacht in the English Channel on Tuesday morning, according to international media. <\/p>\n
On the morning of Tuesday, June 16, the British Ministry of Defence received reports that a Russian warship had fired warning shots at a civilian yacht in the English Channel. The Ministry confirmed it is investigating the incident, with reports of the confrontation corroborated by Reuters and Sky News.<\/p>\n
Sky News reported that the vessel is a UK-registered yacht. The crew stated that the Russian warship fired shots from a distance of approximately 457 meters. There have been no reports of damage to the yacht or injuries to those on board.<\/p>\n
Reuters, citing an anonymous source, reported that shots were fired when the yacht approached the Russian vessel. The source identified the ship involved as the Russian frigate Admiral Grigorovich. The British Royal Navy confirmed that two of its ships had been tracking the Russian vessel in the English Channel, west of Brest, France.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, British forces intercepted and seized a tanker belonging to Russia\u2019s shadow fleet as it attempted to transit the English Channel. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer stated on X that the operation serves as a reminder to those fueling Putin’s war in Ukraine that they cannot hide.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked the British government for the operation. He noted on X that Russia’s arrogance, fueled by oil and gas revenues, paved the way for the conflict and that depriving Moscow of these financial resources helps limit the war effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The British Ministry of Defence is investigating reports that a Russian warship fired warning shots toward a civilian yacht in the English Channel on Tuesday morning, according to international media. The English Channel Incident On the morning of Tuesday, June 16, the British Ministry of Defence received reports that a Russian warship had fired warning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-and-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}