Retired British couple Jane and Alan Kelvey spoke to BBC’s Newsnight after coming into shut contact with Russian frigate the Admiral Grigorovich on Tuesday morning.
“They gave out 5 blasts on their horn, which implies, have you ever seen us?”, defined Jane.
“We instantly turned two levels to port in order that they may see we would made a deliberate change, after all, which meant we had seen them,” she added.
The Russian Defence Ministry stated the yacht had been on a “harmful strategy” in direction of the warship, and its crew fired into its path with rifles after making a number of makes an attempt to contact it over the radio and after launching warning flares.
The Ministry of Defence has described the encounter as an “remoted incident” and never linked to the seizure of a Russian shadow fleet tanker within the Channel on Sunday.