Dan Sabbagh

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102 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 17 Jun

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This is a kind of accident or an incident waiting to happen.

Retired couple, I think on a day out, shots were fired.

And at that point, they suddenly realised that they'd had a major problem.

Russia's really stepped up its presence over the last few months.

They have their transponders off.

And if you get too close, you know, they won't play nicely.

It's certainly reckless behaviour.

Warning shots should be a sort of, you know, your last option.

But it comes at this time of kind of heightened tension between Britain and Russia.

Well, it's an extraordinary story, isn't it?

You know, you've got a, you know, as you say, it's a retired couple.

I think on a day out, they were taking their yacht from Limington on the south coast down to down to Cherbourg.

And what I don't think they expected to find it because Russian warships don't turn their transponders there, you know, effectively there.

If you like their ship radar on.

It's a little bit unclear precisely what happened.

There's a little bit of claim and counterclaim, but it does look like there was some kind of they sailed very close to this Russian warship.

Too close as far as the Russians concerned.

I don't think the Russians like it.

These warships don't like it when the captors don't like it when you get within about 500 meters of these boats.

And it looks like there were some kind of warnings, perhaps a tannoy.

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