Dan Sabbagh
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Today in Focus · Russia warship fires warning shot at British couple – The Latest · 17 Jun 2026
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Well, in a way, this is a kind of accident or an incident waiting to happen.
In other words, at some point, some more innocent, you know, in this case, sort of...
you know, a yacht owned by a retired couple, was going to come perhaps a bit too close to it.
And the thing is that the Russians don't play the game the same way that the Royal Navy or other Western navies do.
You know, they have their transponders off.
And if you get too close, you know, they won't play nicely.
They might do something you don't quite expect.
Well, I think it's I think actually it's both of those, to be honest with you.
It's certainly reckless behavior by the Russians because warning shots should be a sort of, you know, your last, you know, your last option if you're in a warship and you feel threatened by another vessel.
Well, quite.
But, you know, again, the Russians are very twitchy and you never quite, you know, you know, sometimes you never quite know what's going on.
So you would expect the Russians to behave in a much more calm and measured way and send out many more warnings through radio, through tan eyes, through signals, through flares, whatever.
In this case, they went sort of straight to the highest level of escalation.
I mean, neither the couple nor the Russians set out to kind of...
almost bump into each other that day.
Whether there was actually a collision course or not isn't quite clear, I suspect.
It wasn't quite the case, but the yacht was sailing uncomfortably close from the Russian perspective.
Look, the couple are experienced mariners, but how well informed are people?
You know, you shouldn't get too close to a Russian warship.
It sounds obvious as we're sitting chatting here.
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