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Reports about Russian ships being intercepted by the Royal Navy are missing something very important: the law.

Here’s the latest incident, as reported by the BBC:

“Two Russian warships were intercepted in the English Channel by the Royal Navy, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said.

“In the latest incident involving Russia’s ships entering waters around the UK, HMS Severn headed off the RFN Stoikiy, a corvette and Yelnya, a tanker, as they sailed west through the Dover Strait into the English Channel in the past fortnight.

“Last week, it emerged that the Russian spy ship Yantar was spotted off the coast of Scotland and it used lasers to disrupt RAF pilots tracking its movements.”

The reporting makes it seem these Russian warships were somewhere they didn’t belong – but the facts do not bear this out.

These ships were in international waters and had every right to be there.

Here’s what you aren’t being told…

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