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 docked at a port in Kaliningrad, Russia. Alamy Stock Photo A Russian spy ship that can allegedly cut undersea cables was today spotted in the English Channel.

Yantar arrived in Trinidad and Tobago on Friday and left this morning. Her next destination is unclear. Previously her deployments have been visible on the Automated Identification System (AIS).

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.

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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." ...

Russian spy ship warning as expert says 'this is how Putin seeks revenge on UK' EXCLUSIVE: Yantar can deploy deep diving submersibles and also Remotely-operated Vehicles, Iain Ballantyne pointed out.

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.