{"id":55419,"date":"2017-12-26T06:26:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T06:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=55419"},"modified":"2017-12-26T06:26:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T06:26:28","slug":"britain-escorts-russian-ship-near-national-waters-amid-strained-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/britain-escorts-russian-ship-near-national-waters-amid-strained-relations.html","title":{"rendered":"Britain escorts Russian ship near national waters amid strained relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Britain escorts Russian ship near national waters amid strained relations<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Britain escorts Russian ship near national waters amid strained relations:- A British ship escorted a Russian vessel as it passed near UK territorial waters over Christmas, Britain\u2019s defense ministry said on Tuesday, adding that Russian naval activity near Britain had increased in the holiday period.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The frigate HMS St Albans departed on Dec. 23 to track the new Russian warship Admiral Gorshkov as it moved through the North Sea. The Royal Navy vessel monitored the Russian ship over Christmas and will return to dock in Portsmouth later on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">UK defense minister Gavin Williamson said in a statement after the incident that he would \u201cnot hesitate in defending our waters or tolerate any form of aggression\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Relations between Britain and Russia are strained, and UK foreign minister Boris Johnson said there was \u201cabundant evidence\u201d of Moscow meddling in foreign elections during a trip to Russia last week. His counterpart Sergei Lavrov said there was no proof for Johnson\u2019s claim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">While Johnson said he wants to normalize relations with Russia, Moscow blames London for the poor state of relations between the countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Britain\u2019s defense ministry said another ship, HMS Tyne, was called to escort a Russian intelligence-gathering ship through the North Sea and the English Channel on Christmas Eve. A helicopter was subsequently dispatched to monitor two other Russian vessels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-tunisia-emirates\/uae-has-information-tunisian-women-may-commit-terrorist-acts-tunisia-says-idUSKBN1EJ0MR<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/britain-escorts-russian-ship-near-national-waters-amid-strained-relations.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain escorts Russian ship near national waters amid strained relations Britain escorts Russian ship near national waters amid strained relations:- A British ship escorted a Russian vessel as it passed near UK territorial waters over Christmas, Britain\u2019s defense ministry said on Tuesday, adding that Russian naval activity near Britain had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5470],"tags":[111945,3321,6983,597,16167],"class_list":["post-55419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-britain-escorts-russian-ship-near-national-waters-amid-strained-relations","tag-government","tag-middle-east","tag-tunisia","tag-united-arab-emirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}