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LONDON (AP) \u2014 The British military is investigating reports that a Russian warship fired warning shots at a U.K.-registered yacht in the English Channel on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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The Defense Ministry said it was investigating an \u201cincident\u201d after the yacht said it was fired on by a Russian navy vessel about 500 yards (460 meters) away. It happened about 20 miles (about 30 kilometers) south of the Isle of Wight, outside U.K. territorial waters.<\/p>\n

There were no reports of injuries or damage to the yacht.<\/p>\n

The Russian government did not immediately reply to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

British media reported that the Russian vessel is the frigate Admiral Grigorovich. Russian warships passing through the English Channel are routinely shadowed by the Royal Navy, and patrol vessel HMS Mersey was monitoring the Russian ship at the time of the reported incident.<\/p>\n

The incident occurred two days after British commandos boarded and detained a sanctioned tanker<\/span> in the Channel that is suspected of being part of the Russian \u201cshadow fleet.\u201d<\/span> Officials are not linking the two events.<\/p>\n

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The tanker\u2019s captain, an Indian national charged with shipping Russian oil in violation of international sanctions over Moscow\u2019s war on Ukraine<\/span>, was ordered held in jail after appearing Tuesday in court.<\/p>\n

The British military has had several close encounters with Russian vessels in the region and warned Moscow in November that it was ready to deal with any incursion into its territory after the spy ship<\/span> Yantar was detected on the edge of U.K. waters north of Scotland.<\/p>\n

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In April, Britain and Norway<\/span> said they had tracked a Russian attack sub and two spy submarines operating north of the U.K. for several weeks.<\/p>\n

A Royal Navy frigate, aircraft and hundreds of personnel spent weeks following the Russian vessels and prevented them from carrying out \u201cnefarious\u201d activities against underwater infrastructure, then-Defense Secretary John Healey said.<\/p>\n

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He accused Moscow of using the distraction of the Iran war to ramp up malign activity<\/span> against Europe.<\/p>\n

Five years ago, Russia said one of its warships fired warning shots and a warplane dropped bombs in the Black Sea to force the British destroyer HMS Defender out of an area near Crimea that Moscow claimed as its territorial waters.<\/p>\n

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