Russian warships have been pictured off the coast of Britain, en route to a suspected bolstering of the bombing campaign on the besieged Syrian city Aleppo.

Royal Navy vessels were closely monitoring the fleet as it passed through the English Channel at around 9am on Friday.

Admiral Kuznetsov, an aircraft carrier, and Peter the Great, a Kirov class battlecruiser, were among those filmed off Ramsgate, Kent, in footage posted online.