{"id":45367,"date":"2026-06-17T18:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/45367\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T18:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:00:33","slug":"why-are-russian-warships-in-the-english-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/45367\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are Russian warships in the English Channel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Why are Russian warships in the English Channel?\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_2N0XcG7yVo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhy are Russian warships in the English Channel?<br \/>\n<br \/>\n&#8220;Just one of those things.&#8221; A typically British response to an unprecedented act of belligerence. <\/p>\n<p>When Alan and Jane Kelvey took their yacht out for a sail across the English Channel, the last thing they expected was to be at the centre of a huge diplomatic incident. <\/p>\n<p>But when a Russian-flagged frigate fired warning shots as the couple sailed nearby, it was yet another sign of the breakdown in relations between the Kremlin and the UK. <\/p>\n<p>Was this an indirect response to the impounding of a Russian shadow fleet oil tanker by British forces? Why are Moscow\u2019s warships operating so close to the UK coastline in the first place? And is it another example of the Royal Navy&#8217;s lack of resources? <\/p>\n<p>Niall Paterson is joined by Sky\u2019s military analyst Professor Michael Clarke. <\/p>\n<p>Have you got a question for Niall? Email us: why@sky.uk<\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/skynews<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on TikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@skynews <\/p>\n<p>For more content go to http:\/\/news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/sky-news\/id316391924?mt=8 Android https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&#038;hl=en_GB <\/p>\n<p>Listen to our new podcast This is Why, available for free here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/thisiswhy<\/p>\n<p>To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/info\/library-sales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why are Russian warships in the English Channel? &#8220;Just one of those things.&#8221; A typically British response to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[7663,6847,19390,76,26930,43057,31,43060,43061,1426,910,17,1505,1520,296,43058,79,43059,178,1829],"class_list":["post-45367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sky-news","tag-british","tag-channel","tag-english-channel","tag-europe","tag-is","tag-michaelclarke","tag-news","tag-niall","tag-patterson","tag-podcast","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-sky","tag-sky-news","tag-this","tag-ukraine","tag-why","tag-world","tag-zelenskyy"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116766820553150789","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}