Warships of the British Royal Navy constantly monitor ships suspected of being part of the English Channel, which are trying to evade the economic sanctions imposed on Moscow, as reported by the United Kingdom Ministry of Defense this Friday. The device is part of a two-day operation, coordinated by NATO and in which other member countries of the alliance participate. This Thursday, he was sailing in the Mediterranean.
The British vessels, supported by a combat helicopter Wildcat, They have followed the trail for several hours, activated for interception, of the Russian corvette Boikiyand the oil tanker it was escorting, the MT General Skobelev.
The United Kingdom carries out routine surveillance of its waters due to the possible threat to its national security and to the pipelines, pipes and oil pipelines, represented by Russian ships, since tension increased due to the invasion of Ukraine.
A few hours before this new surveillance maneuver, British vessels had collaborated with the French Government in the interception of another oil tanker from Russia, which was sailing under a false flag, in the Alboran Sea, when it was preparing to cross the Strait of Gibraltar. The authorities suspected that this was a new attempt to evade sanctions intended to choke off Moscow’s sources of financing.
The United Kingdom, through NATO, in strengthening the fight against ghost fleet Russian. The Union’s Foreign Action Service has estimated the number of ships that make up that fleet at 1,400, with which Moscow tries to continue exporting its crude oil, fuels its war in Ukraine and even uses these vessels as platforms to launch its hybrid war against Europe.
In November last year, the British Defense Minister, John Healey, denounced the incursion of a Russian fleet spy ship on several occasions into the territorial waters of the United Kingdom, off the north coast of Scotland, and pointed a laser at the pilots of British aircraft. He Liberatethe ship in question, had been carrying out incursions into waters under the economic control of the United Kingdom in the North Sea for weeks, but this was the first time in which it acted in a hostile manner.
