Navy keeps watch on Russians in Channel

A ROYAL Navy warship has been scrambled twice in a month to escort Russian warships through the Channel – monitoring them for more than 500 miles each time.

Patrol ship HMS Tyne oversaw military transporters Minsk and Alexander Shabalin, pictured, as they passed by Britain.

The Portsmouth-based vessel used sophisticated navigation software and radars to locate and track the Russian landing ships, which are used to move equipment from its northern ports to bases in the Mediterranean and Black Sea.