BREAKING NEWS Royal Navy scrambled to 'escort' Russian submarine through the English Channel
A Royal Navy warship has shadowed a Russian submarine as it travelled through the English Channel.
Portsmouth-based HMS Tyne was deployed as part of a Nato operation to keep a watch on the kilo-class submarine Krasnodar as it made its surfaced journey back to Russia from the eastern Mediterranean.
It is the latest deployment of a UK warship to follow Russian vessels through the Channel, with HMS St Albans and HMS Mersey involved in similar operations two weeks ago.
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