Britain's Royal Navy said on Wednesday it monitored a Russian warship and merchant vessel this week on a voyage through the English Channel and North Sea. HMS Somerset, which has conducted similar operations involving Russian vessels in the past,

A Royal Navy warship has shadowed a Russian task group sailing through the English Channel and the North Sea. HMS Somerset kept watch over the Russian corvette Boikiy for three da

The Royal Navy frigate HMS Somerset deployed a Merlin helicopter to "to gather valuable information from the sky," as the Russian vessels transited the English Channel from Syria.

HMS Somerset kept watch over the Russian corvette Boikiy for three days as it escorted merchant vessel Baltic Leader on its voyage from Syria.