The UK reportedly suspects that the leisure vessels might used for spying on nuclear submarines
The Royal Navy believes that luxurious superyachts owned by rich Russians have been spying on British nuclear submarines, The Sunday Instances reported Saturday, citing three protection sources.
The Navy had “credible intelligence” that, earlier than Russia’s navy operation in Ukraine started in 2022, the yacht might have been used “to conduct underwater reconnaissance round Britain,” the Instances claimed.
The newspaper steered that some vessels have moon swimming pools that may be secretly used to launch and retrieve deep-sea renaissance and diving gear.
The Instances quoted an unnamed overseas minister as saying that, in 2018, the amphibious assault ship HMS Albion needed to depart the port of Limassol in Cyprus early after “an enormous superyacht belonging to an oligarch pulled up alongside it.”
The Navy has found a lot of sensors it believes to be Russian within the seas across the nation, the newspaper mentioned, including that the British principle is that Moscow is spying on the UK’s 4 nuclear-capable Vanguard submarines.
Earlier this yr, The Solar reported that the Royal Navy went on a days-long search, monitoring the sounds it believed belonged to a Russian stealth submarine. The suspicious sounds had been later reported to have been made by a farting whale.
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