‘We don’t want world war three’: yacht couple call for calm after Russian warning shots

A British woman on a yacht in the Channel near which a Russian warship fired warning shots has told how she does not want the incident to be blown out of proportion, saying: “We don’t want world war three to start because of this.” Jane Kelvey, 69, and her husband, Alan, 70, were on their yacht, Bright Future, travelling from the south coast of England towards France on Tuesday when they came into close contact with the Admiral Grigorovich, a 409ft (125-metre) Russian frigate. Jane said the warship fired four or five warning shots that sounded like “a whipcrack. You can tell when a gun’s been fired. You know that noise.” Despite the incident, the retired couple from Buckinghamshire were determined to enjoy their two-month sailing trip, Jane said. “We just don’t want it blown out of all proportion. We don’t want world war three to start because of this, because had it just been the five blasts on their horn, we wouldn’t have reported it, there would have been nothing to report. It was just the gunfire that was a little bit surprising,” she told the Guardian on Wednesday. “I don’t want it to put any other British sailors off either. …