Wednesday, 14 July 2021 10:11 PM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 14 July 2021 10:49 PM ] File photo of the British warship HMS Defender Russia’s second most important security official strongly warns the UK against testing Moscow again by risking another naval provocation such as the one that was staged by a British warship near Crimea last month. "Similar actions will be thwarted with the harshest methods in future by Russia regardless of the violator's state allegiance,” Mikhail Popov, deputy secretary of Russia's state Security Council, said on Wednesday. “We suggest our opponents think hard about whether it's worth organizing such provocations given the capabilities of Russia's armed forces," he added in remarks to Russia’s Rossiiyskaya Gazeta newspaper.