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Navy intercepts two Russian ships in English Channel

23 November 2025, 16:28 GMT

Two Russian warships were intercepted in the English Channel by the Royal Navy, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said.

In the latest incident involving Russia's ships infiltrating UK waters, HMS Severn headed off the RFN Stoikiy, a corvette and Yelnya, a tanker, as they sailed west through the Dover Strait into the English Channel in the past fortnight.

Last week, it emerged that the Russian spy ship Yantar was spotted off the coast of Scotland and it used lasers to disrupt RAF pilots tracking its movements.

Defence Secretary John Healey branded the Yantar's move "deeply dangerous" and warned Russia and its president Vladimir Putin: "We see you. We know what you're doing. We are ready."

Healey said last week that there had been a 30% increase in Russian vessels threatening UK waters in the past two years.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c997vm74ydvo



Credit: UK Ministry of Defence

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Russian border guards crossed into Estonia with unclear motives, minister says

Updated: today at 05.14

Three Russian border guards crossed the Estonian-Russian border in eastern Estonia on Wednesday morning without permission, the minister of the interior said. The reason is unknown but there is no threat to Estonia's security, he added.

Around 10 a.m. on Wednesday (December 17), Estonian border guards using surveillance equipment detected several Russian border guards on a hovercraft on the Narva River near the Vasknarva breakwater in Ida-Viru County.

The hovercraft stopped at the stone breakwater, which is situated in both Russian and Estonian territory at the entrance to Lake Peipus. Three border guards disembarked and then walked along the structure.

In doing so, the Russian border guards crossed the border from Russia into Estonia and then returned to the Russian side of the breakwater, a video released by the Estonian Police and Border Guard (PPA) shows. After that, the border guards returned to their hovercraft and went back to the Russian side of the river.

Eerik Purgel, head of the PPA's Eastern Prefecture, said several Estonian border patrol units responded.

https://news.err.ee/1609888417/russian- ... ister-says



Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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Alexei Navalny was poisoned by Kremlin with dart frog toxin, say European nations

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-na ... -9.7090292

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Russia needs to copy china.
-Stop the wars
-Refocus on education
-Invest into science and tech
-Encourage its youth to go into those fields and start companies to compete
-Invest into advance ideas
-Have a Universal healthcare system and rise the standard of living

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Coup in Russia, Kremlin in Lockdown: Western Intel Claims Putin Under Fire
By Nitin J Ticku
May 5, 2026

Introduction:

(The Eurasian Times) In the fifth year of the Ukraine War and unable to make any meaningful gains on the battleground, the Russian President Vladimir Putin is increasingly paranoid about a coup against him, or perhaps even an assassination attempt.

The top leadership in the Kremlin has been on a high alert since the beginning of March, adding a double layer of security around Putin and dramatically reducing his public appearances to avert any such attack.

In fact, such is the paranoia in the Kremlin that the security services have significantly toned down the May 9 celebrations in Moscow and have not invited any State Duma members to the Victory Day parade on Red Square, so that the public presence around Putin can be significantly cut down.
This was reported by US media outlet CNN and Important Stories, a leading Russian independent investigative outlet, based on an intelligence report prepared by an EU member state.

Parts of the report were confirmed by independent sources within Russian security services, the outlet claimed.

Read more here: https://www.eurasiantimes.com/putin-fa ... ilot.com

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