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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor

Russian warship carries out rare live-fire exercise 45 miles off UK coast

Russian Navy frigate Neustrashimy marked with number 772 sits in calm blue water with hills and coastal buildings in the background
The Russian frigate Neustrashimy off Simonstown, South Africa. If arrived off the British coast earlier this month. Photograph: Gallo Images/Getty Images

A Russian warship fired its main cannon in a short notice test 45 miles south of Plymouth on Monday, the day Andy Burnham was appointed as prime minister.

The Neustrashimy suddenly announced it intended to fire its guns in the morning and requested that a British warship, which had been tracking it, retreat a couple of miles to a safe distance.

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