A Russian victory over Ukraine would greatly undermine the power of Nato and its credibility would cost trillions to restore, the alliance’s secretary general has warned.

The Russian spy ship was intercepted by a Royal Navy frigate, HMS Somerset, as it sailed into the channel and headed north to the North Sea. RFA Proteus, a British multi-role ocean surveillance ship, shadowed the Yantar on Tuesday, according to GPS data captured by the website MarineTraffic.

President Trump’s initial attempts to lure Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table on Ukraine have been met with what essentially amounts to a shrug. “We don’t see anything new here,

Trump declared dozens of times that he would have a deal in place between Ukraine and Russia on his first day in office, if not before. His advisers now concede the war will take months to resolve. "I really would like to be able to meet with President Putin soon to get that war ended,