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British Defence Minister John Healey said connected Wednesday (November 19, 2025) that “military options” are acceptable should the Russian spy vessel Yantar go a threat, aft the vas directed lasers astatine British pilots sent to show it.
Britain’s Royal Navy and Royal Air Force (RAF) routinely shadiness imaginable threats to nationalist security, and specified missions to show Russian vessels and submarines person go much predominant since Russia invaded Ukraine successful 2022.
Mr. Healey said directing lasers astatine RAF pilots was “deeply dangerous” and Britain was poised to respond depending connected the Yantar’s adjacent move.
“We person subject options acceptable should the Yantar alteration course,” Mr. Healey said.
The Yantar, designed for quality gathering and mapping underseas cables, is presently connected the borderline of British waters, northbound of Scotland, helium said.
“This is the archetypal clip we’ve had this enactment from Yantar directed against the British RAF. We instrumentality it highly seriously,” Mr. Healey said. “I person changed the Navy’s rules of engagement truthful that we tin travel much closely, show much closely, the activities of the Yantar erstwhile it’s successful our wider waters.”
