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Russian warship incident in Channel deeply concerning, says Starmer

Politics The Guardian By Alexandra Topping in Évian-les-Bains and Dan Sabbagh 17 Jun 2026 08:11 1 min read
Russian warship incident in Channel deeply concerning, says Starmer

PM says firing of warning shots at yacht was reckless and UK is dealing with proxy attacks from Russia ‘every day’ UK politics live – latest updates Warning shots fired by a Russian warship sailing across the Channel on Tuesday morning were “deeply concerning and reckless”, Keir Starmer said from the G7 summit on Wednesday as he warned that the UK was dealing with proxy attacks from Russia “every single day”. The prime minister said the Ministry of Defence had assessed that the Russian vessel

PM says firing of warning shots at yacht was reckless and UK is dealing with proxy attacks from Russia ‘every day’

UK politics live – latest updates

Warning shots fired by a Russian warship sailing across the Channel on Tuesday morning were “deeply concerning and reckless”, Keir Starmer said from the G7 summit on Wednesday as he warned that the UK was dealing with proxy attacks from Russia “every single day”.

The prime minister said the Ministry of Defence had assessed that the Russian vessel was drifting and fired the shots within a few hundred metres of a British pleasure yacht.

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