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.
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.
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00:00 Introduction
00:19 Fears of a Russian invasion
01:30 Why was a Russian warship so close to the UK?
03:00 Russian operations near Nato territory
04:40 Does everyone conduct exercises near foreign powers?
06:10 Russia and undersea pipelines and cables
07:26 What this says about relations between Russia and Nato
