Russian Frigate Fires on British Yacht in English Channel

The Admiral Grigorovich, a Russian guided-missile frigate, fired small-arms warning shots at a UK-registered yacht in the English Channel on June 16, forcing it to divert. Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the incident "reckless." Russia claimed the yacht approached dangerously. The episode escalates tensions over use of an international strait and comes one day after the Royal Navy boarded a sanctioned Russian shadow fleet tanker in the same waters.