PM says firing of warning shots at yacht was reckless and UK is dealing with proxy attacks from Russia ‘every day’
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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This article was originally published by The Guardian and written by Alexandra Topping in Évian-les-Bains and Dan Sabbagh.
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