Laura Kuenssberg

While we were sleeping safely last night, there were all been Marines and Navy and Air Force personnel boarding helicopters, flying low level over the sea, rearing up before the ship, fast roping onto the ship, securing it, and then taking it into our territorial waters.

An amazing operation, excellently prosecuted by our Royal Marines and others.

So first of all, we have a Russian or we had a Russian frigate in the channel protecting some of those ships coming through.

And secondly, it was about hitting the right parameters to make sure that everything from legal to the cargo met the requirements for boarding.

We've actually helped lots of other nations do these boardings, America, France and others.

And I think now that the first one has happened, we're probably going to see more should the opportunities present themselves.

Yes, it's a way of evading the sanctions.

This one was flagged in Cameroon, is it?

It was, and it has changed flag twice in the last 18 months.

It's changed its name once.

So using these shadowy tactics, it's got the name the Shadow Fleet.

It's a reminder that Russia operates in the space between war and peace, as well as when it's at war, it's also testing the boundaries of what war is and what peace is on our continent.

and presumably part of the wider strategy from the UK and France and Germany and the States, a week after President Zelensky visited Number 10, is trying to damage the Russian economy as much as possible, bolster the Ukrainian armed forces as much as possible in advance of any peace talks.

Because everything we heard from Zelensky,

The E3, the French president, the German chancellor, the UK prime minister, plus President Zelensky this time last week, was about preparing the ground for Ukraine being in the best possible position for any peace negotiations.

Now, Lisa Nandy was speaking for the government on your sofa.

She was.

So I'm imagining, I couldn't watch, of course, I was otherwise engaged, but I imagine you said, where's the money?

It's interesting to hear a government secretary of state saying that, quoting the resignation letter... I know, wasn't it?

Is there a double speak at the moment by everyone involved in frontline politics for Labour?