{"id":521311,"date":"2026-04-09T11:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521311\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:24:08","slug":"defence-secretary-reveals-month-long-russian-submarine-operation-over-cables-and-pipelines-north-of-uk-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521311\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence secretary reveals month-long Russian submarine operation over cables and pipelines north of UK &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Healey tells BBC he condemns Lebanon escalationpublished at 11:32 BST<\/p>\n<p>11:32 BST<\/p>\n<p>      Media caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8216;We welcome the ceasefire, we want it to hold&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC&#8217;s Defence Correspondent Jonathan Beale is the first to ask a question. He asks for more clarity on what the Russian submarines were doing in the North Atlantic, and also whether the ceasefire in the Middle East can hold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On the Middle East, Healey says he welcomes the ceasefire and wants it to hold, but &#8220;condemns&#8221; the escalation in Lebanon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking about the submarines, he says that the UK spent more than a month tracking every mile of them. Recognising the Russian Akula-class nuclear-powered attack submarine as a likely decoy to the two specialist submarines from Russia&#8217;s ministry of defence deep sea research programme, Gugi (Main Directorate of Deep-Sea Research).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He says they watched the Gugi submarines spend time over &#8220;critical infrastructure&#8221;, but he is confident that there is no evidence of any damage. This is being verified with allies, he adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Healey tells BBC he condemns Lebanon escalationpublished at 11:32 BST 11:32 BST Media caption, &#8216;We welcome the ceasefire,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-521311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521311","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=521311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}