Britain says Russian spy ship is on edge of UK waters, as defense secretary issues warning to Putin

A Russian spy vessel was connected the borderline of United Kingdom waters, British defence officials said.

John Healey, the defence secretary, said it was the 2nd clip that the ship, the Yantar, had been deployed to UK waters, SKY News reported. 

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Britain's Defense Secretary John Healey, backdropped by a surface displaying an representation of Russian subject vessel Yantar, operating disconnected the bluish seashore of Scotland, delivers a code successful the Downing Street briefing country successful cardinal London connected Wednesday.  (Getty Images)

"This is simply a vas designed for gathering quality and mapping our undersea cables," helium said during a quality conference. "We deployed a Royal Navy frigate and RAF planes to show and way this vessel's each move, during which the Yantar directed lasers astatine our pilots.

Healey warned Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying: "we spot you, we cognize what you're doing, and if the Yantar travels southbound this week, we are ready."

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Healey's informing came pursuing a study by the Commons Defence Committee, which said that the UK "lacks a program for defending the homeland and overseas territories" arsenic it urged the authorities to motorboat a "co-ordinated effort to pass with the nationalist connected the level of menace we face," the quality outlet reported. 

The Yantar isn't conscionable portion of a naval cognition but portion of Moscow's Main Directorate of Deep-Sea Research, oregon GUGI, which chiefly works successful surveillance successful peacetime and sabotage during conflicts. 

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"That is wherefore we've been determined, whenever the Yantar comes into British wider waters, we way it, we deter it and we accidental to Putin we are ready, and we bash that alongside allies," said Healey.