{"id":271642,"date":"2025-11-19T12:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T12:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/271642\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T12:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T12:58:11","slug":"uk-warns-russia-its-ready-to-deal-with-incursions-after-spy-ship-spotted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/271642\/","title":{"rendered":"UK warns Russia it’s ready to deal with incursions after spy ship spotted"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON — Britain warned Russia<\/a> on Wednesday that it was ready to deal with any incursions into its territory after the spy ship<\/a> Yantar was detected on the edge of U.K. waters north of Scotland.<\/p>\n

Defense Secretary John Healey said the Russian vessel had directed lasers at pilots of surveillance aircraft monitoring its activities.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy message to Russia and to Putin is this: We see you. We know what you\u2019re doing,\u2019\u2019 Healey said during a briefing in London. \u201cAnd if the Yantar travels south this week, we are ready.\u201d<\/p>\n

British officials said the Yantar is part of the Russian navy, designed to conduct surveillance in peacetime and sabotage during times of war. Because of this, the U.K. and its allies track the ship and work to deter its operations whenever it approaches British territorial waters.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is part of a Russian fleet designed to put and hold our undersea infrastructure and those of our allies at risk,\u201d Healey said, referencing attacks on pipelines and cables under the Baltic Sea earlier this year.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time the Yantar has probed Britain\u2019s defenses, Healey said. After a warning last year, the Yantar left U.K. waters for the Mediterranean. When the Russian ship later sailed through the English Channel in January, it was followed by HMS Somerset, a frigate assigned to homeland defense in the waters around Britain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON — Britain warned Russia on Wednesday that it was ready to deal with any incursions into its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[111760,233,59,232,9963,57,58,50,56,54,55,231],"class_list":["post-271642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-111760","tag-article","tag-gb","tag-general-news","tag-government-surveillance","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}