Londres met en garde Poutine après la détection d’un navire russe
Les autorités britanniques ont déclaré que le Yantar faisait partie de la marine russe et qu'il était conçu pour effectuer de la surveillance en temps de paix et du sabotage en temps de guerre.
00:00What do we know about the Russian spy ship seen in European waters?
00:08A Russian vessel was pursued by British warships when it sailed through the English Channel last week.
00:14This is what the UK Defence Minister said.
00:17Let me be clear. This is a Russian spy ship used for gathering intelligence and mapping the UK's critical underwater infrastructure.
00:30The ship, known as Yanta, on paper only carries out oceanographic research, but it belongs to Moscow's Defence Ministry and Western officials believe it's mainly used for deep-sea espionage.
00:43Last week, Yanta was first detected around 83 kilometres off the British coast.
00:48We tracked her movements over the following days and found she had sailed through the English Channel before continuing towards the Kattegat Strait between Denmark and Sweden,
00:58suggesting she was heading back to base in St. Petersburg.
01:01This is not unusual. Russian ships commonly use this route to head back to their base, and the ship didn't break any international rules.
01:09But it is believed that Yanta could be mapping critical undersea infrastructure, such as communications cables and gas pipelines.
01:18These have recently been severed in suspected acts of sabotage.
01:22Yanta is well-equipped to map undersea infrastructure.
01:26It can hover over a specific location.
01:29On board, it has human-carrying submarines that can reach 6,000 metres below water.
01:34There are also deep-sea robots tethered to the ship that can deposit or retrieve objects from the seabed.
01:41Naval experts told us that the ship is well-known to European authorities,
01:45but the UK's firm response suggests governments are increasingly nervous about Yanta's operations
01:51and the potential that the intelligence it gathers could be used in the future acts of sabotage.
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