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EPISODE · Aug 30, 2026 · 8 MIN

Russia's empty Mediterranean

from The UK Defence Journal Weekly Brief · host UK Defence Journal

Russia has had no warships in the Mediterranean since June, the first time in ten years, and a NATO official tells us allied vessels now outnumber Russian ones three to one in European waters. Also this week: up to seventy jobs going at Ferguson Marine while the government that owns the yard sits on the contracts that would fill it, Donald Trump opening American warship building to foreign yards for the first time, and an American frigate being towed across the Atlantic to be sunk off the Hebrides next month. 

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