Una nave spia russa fa breccia nelle acque alleate e spara laser contro aerei militari

My latest: British Defense Secretary John Healey said a Russian spy ship had entered the NATO ally’s northern waters and directed lasers at military planes sent to monitor it. He warned the Kremlin that “we are ready” if the vessel tries to travel further south.

Read more: [https://www.newsweek.com/russian-spy-ship-uk-nato-waters-laser-planes-11072250?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=reddit_influencers](https://www.newsweek.com/russian-spy-ship-uk-nato-waters-laser-planes-11072250?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=reddit_influencers)

By all means, do nothing. Just send a letter. That will show them

Why is it always newsweek

>”As I speak, a Russian spy ship, the *Yantar*, is on the edge of U.K. waters north of Scotland, having entered the U.K.’s wider waters over the last few weeks,” Healey said in a speech at Downing Street in London on Wednesday morning.

>”This is a vessel designed for gathering intelligence and mapping our undersea cables. We deployed a Royal Navy frigate and RAF P-8 planes to monitor and track this vessel’s every move, during which the *Yantar* directed lasers at our pilots.

So it didn’t ‘breach’ anything, the statement is purposefully vague and doesn’t talk about ‘territorial waters’.

‘Wider waters’ isn’t a legal or geographic term. International law knows the ‘territorial sea’ (12 nm from coastline, state has full sovereignty), ‘contiguous zone’ (24 nm, limited legal jurisdiction in some defined matters) and ‘exclusive economic zone’ (200 nm, includes contiguous zone, state has exclusive right for economic activity and use of resources, but cannot legally prevent anyone else from passage or even just chilling there).

The fact that the article talks only about ‘wider waters’ almost certainly means the ship hasn’t breached territorial waters. The real issue is using lasers against planes monitoring it, which is of course illegal. But being there probably isn’t.

Russian drones and spy ships, and aircraft, all poking around NATO, just probing and probing. Inch by inch.

Meanwhile the UK wants to reno their barracks. Hmmm. We’re going to be, NOT surprised when it starts.

Russians seem to not be moved by a strongly worded letter anymore.