Sojojin ruwa na Masarautar Burtaniya sun kwashe kwanaki uku suna bin diddigin jiragen ruwa na Rasha yayin da suke tafiya cikin ruwan Burtaniya, an bayyana hakan.
Aikin na sa'o'i 72 mai "tsanani" ya faru ne a makon da ya gabata, inda aka yi amfani da radar don sa ido kan jiragen ruwa guda hudu da ke tafiya daga Tekun Arewa zuwa tashar Ingila.
Jiragen sun kasance ana kallon su ta hannun HMS Duncan, HMS St Albans, da HMS Severn, tare da jirgin sama mai suna Merlin yana ba da tallafi, a cewar jami'ai.
An ga jirgin yakin Rasha mai suna Admiral Levchenko yana raka jiragen dakon kaya General Skobelev da Sparta—dukansu biyu suna karkashin takunkumi—zuwa Dover.
A mayar da martani, Rasha ta tura kayan aikinta na soja, ciki har da jirgin yakin Neustrashimy, don kare jigilar kaya.
Admiral Gen Gwyn Jenkins, Ubangijin Teku na Farko, ya ce babu "wurin rashin kulawa" yayin da jiragen ruwa na inuwa ke ci gaba da yin "kasadar da ba za a amince da ita ba" ga tsaron Burtaniya.
"Tare da abokan aikinmu, wannan hanya tana tilasta Moscow ta karkatar da jiragen yakin Rasha daga ainihin manufarsu," in ji shi. "Wannan saboda Rasha ta san muna shirye mu sake yin aiki, idan an bukata."
Sojojin ruwa na Burtaniya sun yi gargadin kwanan nan game da karuwar ayyukan Rasha a cikin ruwan Burtaniya. A watan Yuli, sun kwashe kwanaki 21 suna sa ido kan jiragen ruwa na Rasha—karuwar kashi 25 cikin dari daga shekarar da ta gabata. Jami'ai sun ce sun sha ganin jiragen yaki a mashigin Dover da Tekun Arewa.
A watan Yuni, Sojojin ruwa na Burtaniya sun kwace jirgin dakon mai na Rasha mai suna Smyrtos, wanda ke nuna karo na farko da sojojin Burtaniya suka shiga cikin jirgin ruwa na inuwa kai tsaye, daya daga cikin fiye da 500 da Burtaniya ta sanya takunkumi.
Kremlin ta yi wa Burtaniya barazana bayan Andy Burnham ya ziyarci Kyiv a wannan makon a ziyararsa ta farko a kasashen waje a matsayin firaminista. A lokacin ziyarar, Burnham ya ce Burtaniya za ta ba da tallafin soja ga Ukraine, ciki har da zane-zane na sassan makamai masu linzami na dogon zango na Scalp.
Yayin da jami'an Yammaci suka yi kokarin rage kasadar rikici kai tsaye tsakanin Rasha da NATO, Kremlin ta zargi Burtaniya da abokan aikinta da "wasa da wuta" game da ci gaba da tallafin da suke baiwa Ukraine.
Andrei Fedorov, tsohon ministan harkokin waje na Rasha, ya ce ba zai iya "cire kashi 100 cikin dari ba" yiwuwar daukar matakin "rabin soja" a kan Burtaniya a matsayin ramuwar gayya, yana tayar da yiwuwar kai hari kan masana'antun jiragen sama na Burtaniya daga "majiyoyin da ba a san su ba."
