{"id":363259,"date":"2026-07-21T19:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T18:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-russia-opened-fire-near-the-british-coast-global-news-podcast\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T19:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T18:00:14","slug":"why-russia-opened-fire-near-the-british-coast-global-news-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-russia-opened-fire-near-the-british-coast-global-news-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Russia opened fire near the British coast | Global News Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/g8JfHJqharE\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Why Russia opened fire near the British coast | Global News Podcast\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g8JfHJqharE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>A Russian warship carried out live-fire drills off the UK coast this week, in the latest instance of Moscow running military excercises near Nato territory. Last week, Poland scrambled fighter jets after Russian aircraft was spotted over the Baltic Sea. And the British government has said Russian submarines were seen near undersea cables and pipelines north of the UK earlier this year. <\/p>\n<p>We ask Vitaly Shevchenko, chief analyst for BBC Monitoring, why the Kremlin is flexing its muscles so close to Nato countries, and how Europe views the threat of Russian aggression, more than four years after Vladimir Putin launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p>New episodes of the Global News Podcast are published twice a day. You can listen here: https:\/\/link.mgln.ai\/GNP-YT<\/p>\n<p>And you can find more of our YouTube episodes here: https:\/\/bbc.in\/GlobalNewsPodcast<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#bbcnews <\/p>\n<p>00:00 Introduction<br \/>\n00:19 Fears of a Russian invasion<br \/>\n01:30 Why was a Russian warship so close to the UK?<br \/>\n03:00 Russian operations near Nato territory<br \/>\n04:40 Does everyone conduct exercises near foreign powers?<br \/>\n06:10 Russia and undersea pipelines and cables<br \/>\n07:26 What this says about relations between Russia and Nato<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian warship carried out live-fire drills off the UK coast this week, in the latest instance of Moscow running military excercises near Nato territory. Last week, Poland scrambled fighter jets after Russian aircraft was spotted over the Baltic Sea. 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