UK’s Starmer says Russian warship’s warning shots in Channel ‘reckless’
Al Jazeera · 17 Jun 2026

UK’s Starmer says Russian warship’s warning shots in Channel ‘reckless’

Russia says shots were fired to divert a yacht outside the UK’s territorial waters. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said the ⁠firing of warning shots by a Russian frigate to divert a UK-flagged civilian yacht near British ⁠territorial waters was troublesome and “should not have happened”, bu


AI Translated Summary:
Keir Starmer criticized the Russian frigate's warning shots aimed at a UK-flagged yacht, labeling the action as reckless. He emphasized that such incidents should not occur near British territorial waters.


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