Russian submarines are stalking the UK coast, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace revealed today as he admitted Moscow is Britain's "number one adversary threat".
A Russian boat was spotted in the Irish Sea, the Cabinet Minister said, as he warned Vladimir Putin's regime was targeting the UK.
It comes as the Royal Navy's biggest ever warship, the £3.1billion, 65,000-tonne Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier, set sail for a seven-month trip which will include visiting China's backyard.
Mr Wallace said a Kilo-class sub was discovered off Britain's west coast. “We saw a Russian submarine in the Irish Sea, which I don't think we have seen for a very very long time," he told the Sunday Telegraph. “It might have been for the first.” Russia has been
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