A Russian warship has been monitored continuously for an entire month by the Royal Navy.
The frigate Admiral Grigorovich has been sailing through UK waters, with patrol ships HMS Tyne, Mersey and Severn all watching it closely.
It sailed for the whole of April to the west of the UK and in the North Sea, getting uncomfortably close to the Galloper wind farm just off the Suffolk coast.
A Royal Navy spokesman said: "Patrol ships HMS Tyne, HMS Mersey and HMS Severn, tanker RFA Tideforce and Wildcat helicopters from 815 Naval Air Squadron tracked the Russian Navy’s Admiral Grigorovich throughout April.
2There was not one day last month when the Russian warship, her supporting vessels or the ships she was tasked with escorting was not closely watched by Royal Navy air or sea power."
They explained the warship spent the month providing an escort to Russian-flagged vessels travelling to and from the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Baltic seas.
During that time, the frigate accompanied one submarine and around six merchant and support vessels, the spokesman said.
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