Overview

• HMS Trent, a Batch 2 offshore patrol vessel, tracked the destroyer Vice Admiral Kulakov after intercepting it off Great Yarmouth.
• A Wildcat helicopter from 815 Naval Air Squadron joined to provide aerial surveillance using advanced sensors.
• A NATO ally monitored two Russian tankers that met the destroyer off Ushant before all three ships turned east through the Channel under Trent’s watch.
• The Ministry of Defence said the task formed part of wider NATO efforts to monitor Russian activity and safeguard undersea infrastructure.
• Trent has returned to UK waters after four years away and is preparing for a Caribbean deployment, with one outlet reporting unconfirmed links to ‘shadow fleet’ oil tankers.