Royal Navy intercepts Russian intelligence vessel and warships in North Sea
Warships and helicopter squadrons carried out three operations over 17 days, monitoring Russian intelligence-gathering vessels and surface action groups near British territorial waters.
A Russian intelligence vessel is caricatured as an enormous pair of binoculars afloat in the North Sea. Its captain has stopped looking ahead and is glancing backwards at a Royal Navy frigate and monitoring helicopter. A British officer watches through an ordinary pair of binoculars: the watcher has become the attraction.
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