A team of Navy experts had been running a high-stakes “round the clock” operation to track a Russian warship before it fired warning shots over a British yacht in the Channel this week.
For at least two months, the Navy has been hunting the Admiral Grigorovich “24/7” with a range of patrol vessels and frigates, alongside P-8 RAF jets. In April alone, more than 250 Navy personnel were involved in the mission.
The Kremlin warship’s exact location is not known but it is currently being shadowed by Britain’s HMS Mersey, with an additional team monitoring its movements from land, The i Paper understands. Publicly-available maritime tracking data showed the Mersey to be anchored in the North Sea on Thursday, between England and Belgium.
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The Grigorovich has been acting as a taxi service for other Russian vessels passing through the Channel, sources close to the monitoring mission told The i Paper.
