A Russian warship and a tanker were spotted sailing through the English Channel.

The HMS Severn intercepted the RFN Stoikiy, a corvette and Yelnya, a tanker, as they all sailed west through the Dover Strait into the English Channel over the past two weeks.

There was no incident reported with the HMS Severn later handing over monitoring duties to a NATO ally off the coast of Brittany, but continued to observe from a distance, the Ministry of Defence said.

Last week John Healey revealed that Russia’s Yantar, which is used to map undersea cables, appeared ‘on the edge of UK waters’ for the second time this year.

After a Royal Navy frigate and RAF P8 planes were sent to keep track of the ship, Russian crew members took the ‘deeply dangerous’ move of pointing lasers at the pilots, he said.

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