UK's Royal Navy tracks Russian vessels sailing through English Channel

LONDON, Jan ⁠23 (Reuters) - Britain's ⁠Royal ‍Navy shadowed Russian vessels sailing through the English Channel ‍in a two-day operation coordinated with ​NATO allies, the navy said on Friday, ​as the military alliance steps up monitoring of Russian shipping.

The navy said two patrol ships, ​supported by a Wildcat helicopter, were dispatched to intercept the ​Russian warship Boikiy and accompanying oil tanker MT ‌General Skobelev as they headed north, before handing the monitoring over ​to a NATO ⁠ally.

The operation comes a day after Britain said it provided ‌support to a French operation to board a sanctioned Russian oil tanker ‌as it passed through the Straits of ‌Gibraltar, in a bid to choke off the funds that fuel Russian's invasion of ‍Ukraine.

Britain's navy routinely conducts shadowing missions to monitor any potential ⁠threats to national security, including to critical infrastructure such as undersea cables or pipelines.

(Reporting by Muvija M; editing by Sarah Young)

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