Russland schickt Kriegsschiff in den Kanal, um den Verdacht auf die Waffenversendung zu begleiten

A sanctioned Russian cargo ship crewed by men in military fatigues has transported military hardware through the English Channel, escorted by a Russian warship, as President Putin bolsters his Ukraine war effort with weapons from Syria.

Dramatic pictures taken by The Times from a fishing vessel show armed officers and crew manning machine guns on the warship, as it passed through the south of the Channel.

The Baltic Leader, a cargo ship sanctioned by the US for transporting weapons on behalf of the Russian military, was carrying a shipment of military hardware from the Russian naval base in Tartus, where Russian operations in Syria are being wound down and equipment shipped out