The 354-foot Yantar, which has two on board mini-submarines, is part of the Kremlin’s Main Directorate for Deep-Sea Research, an elite unit of the Russian military specialized in deep-sea work.

The publication said that in September 2015, the Yantar was near Kings Bay, Georgia, home to a U.S. submarine base, "collecting information about the equipment on American submarines, including ...

The Yantar, which has been in service for about a decade, is a highly sophisticated spy ship, developed by Russia’s Main Directorate for Deep-Sea Research specifically to hunt for critical ...

The Russian vessel Yantar, identified by the UK Department of Defence as a spy ship, has been monitored in the English Channel for a week by Royal Navy (RN) vessels. In November 2024, the Yantar, ...

Yantar was last month seen off the Irish coastline in what was being viewed as a push from Putin to scare the West. It zig-zagged through seas north of Mayo and Donegal over at least one ...

Russian surveillance Yantar was shadowed by HMS Somerset on Jan. 22, 2025. UK Royal Navy Photo U.K. Defence Secretary John Healy revealed to Parliament on Wednesday that he had ordered a Royal ...

Yantar is a Russian Navy vessel, but one that lacks a single weapon. The ship was commissioned in 2015 and officially is known as a "special purpose ship" or "oceanographic vessel." ...

The British navy said Wednesday that is ramping up measures to protect its waters from secret Russian operations after identifying a Russian spy vessel in UK waters for the second time in weeks.

Yantar is a ship of particular interest among Western Navies. According to naval officers familiar with the situation, she is suspected of being involved in placing listening devices on undersea ...

The Yantar 4K2 was first launched in 1981; using the Zenit launch vehicle, it was sent into orbit a total of 82 times, with the last launch in 2002.

Yantar has visited the region before. On a previous voyage in 2015 it was reported that she might be operating near internet cables near to the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay.