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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nicholas Cecil

Attack submarine sent by Putin towards UK as 'decoy' in Russian spy operation targeting underwater cables

A Russian attack submarine and two underwater spy vessels were deployed as part of a mission targeting Britain, Defence Secretary John Healey has said.

As Donald Trump’s Iran war raged in the Middle East, the Akula-class nuclear-powered submarine and two spy submarines from Moscow’s Main Directorate of Deep Sea Research (known as GUGI) entered international waters in the High North, according to defence officials.

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