HMS Dragon arrives off Cyprus

The United Kingdom’s Type 45 destroyer the HMS Dragon has arrived in the waters off Cyprus, British Defence Secretary John Healey said on Monday.

He told the country’s parliament that the ship will now begin “operational integration into Cyprus’ defence”.

The ship had set sail from Portsmouth on March 10, with British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer having announced its deployment, alongside the deployment of two AW159 Wildcat helicopters, after Cyprus’ British Akrotiri air...