Britain said Thursday it had tracked three Russian submarines on an alleged month-long “covert operation” in the Atlantic Ocean “north of the UK” near vital undersea cables and pipelines.
“I deployed our armed forces to track and to deter any malign activity by these vessels,” Defence Secretary John Healey told a press conference, noting Norway and “other allies” joined the mission.
“Our armed forces left them in no doubt that they were being monitored, that their movements were not covert, as (Russian) President (Vladimir) Putin planned and that their attempted secret operation had been exposed”, Healey said.
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