Overview
- British officials say the Yantar was detected at the edge of UK territorial waters north of Scotland.
- Healey reported the ship aimed lasers at RAF surveillance pilots monitoring its movements.
- Royal Navy and RAF assets are shadowing the vessel, with allied partners also tracking its activity.
- Officials describe Yantar as part of a Kremlin program suited to peacetime intelligence gathering and potential wartime sabotage targeting cables and pipelines.
- This marks the second approach involving Yantar this year, following a January episode tracked by HMS Somerset after a prior warning.