A Russian warship fired warning shots at an elderly British couple near the Isle of Wight. Now the couple says the UK is trying to hush it up.

On June 16, the Russian frigate Admiral Grigorovich fired warning shots at a small private yacht that had drawn close to it in the English Channel. No one was injured. Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the Russian sailors’ actions “reckless” but noted that the incident was unlikely to have been “malicious.” The yacht’s owners, meanwhile, said British authorities were deliberately trying to blame them to avoid further straining already tense relations with Russia.