Originally Posted by
atakacs
Sorry about the improper wording but I'm sure you understood what I was meaning. The presence of multiple press correspondents on that ship during this incident proves beyond doubt - if anyone ever had any - that there was nothing innocent about it, neither in the usual nor legal meaning of the word.
Orrrr.....
The last time the RN sailed a ship in and out of the area for FoN the Russian information machine spouted a load of propaganda (see previous threads on the subject) and this time the RN anticipated it and decided that was an unacceptable outcome for a FoN exercise, the point of which is partly to ensure that merchant shipping retains the confidence to travel from point a to b.