The United Kingdom’s Royal Navy dispatched personnel over multiple weeks in September and October to track Russian vessels in nearby waters, including an intelligence-gathering ship that was allegedly monitoring a NATO naval exercise.
Russia’s Vishnya-class intelligence-gathering vessel Viktor Leonov was operating near the Outer Hebrides, and British helicopters tracked it from Sept. 29 to Oct. 8. Nearby, NATO troops were conducting Exercise Strike Warrior 26 in waters north and east of the U.K., featuring more than 2,000 personnel from six countries.
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