A British couple whose yacht was fired upon by a Russian warship in the English Channel insist they did nothing wrong – and have blasted the incident as ‘unnecessary’.
Holidaymakers Jane Kelvey, 68 and her husband Alan, 70, were sailing Bright Future from Lymington to Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, when they spotted the Russian vessel looming 500 metres away from them, on Tuesday morning.
As they sailed closer, the retired couple said they heard five blasts on the horn from the Russian frigate Admiral Grigorovich.
The keen yachters from Iver, Buckinghamshire, said they ‘immediately turned two degrees to port’ as a sign they were changing course,
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