In response to appeals from Irish fisherman and the Irish Government.

The Russian military, which had announced naval drills off the coast of Ireland, will move them further away after fishermen Irish fisherman vowed to disrupt them.

CNN's Donie O'Sullivan joins us now a live near Cork Ireland. So Donie. How did all this unfold?

Yeah, really a David and Goliath story⁽¹⁾, here Fredricka⁽²⁾. had heard all week from these fishermen who were essentially standing off to the Russian government.

About 150 miles from here off the coast of Southwest Ireland here was where these Russian exercises were due to take place.

In waters that are very very important to the fisherman. The livelihoods of fishermen in this part of the country and those fishermen wanted to continue fishing during these exercises.

Which of course would have been quite dangerous. The Russians initially had said. That it would have been unwise for these fishermen to go out there.

But now obviously a change in tune. Tonight the Russians agreeing to basically go further away from the Irish coast and away from these fishing waters.

And I'm actually here with two of the fishermen who were involved in this story.

Patrick Murphy, who is a fisherman, representative body of the fishermen you actually met with the Russian ambassador.

It was you who who spoke at the ambassador earlier this week. You've got a result. You must be delighted.

Oh absolutely, why wouldn't you be like this is all we wanted? Now we can give out the information to our boats.

Listen, let's out you go fish away no worries and mind the weather be safe and everything else you do, and it's fantastic like all with, what else could you say it's brilliant!

And just explain to us, I mean, look this is a community that totally reliant on fishing.

Had the military drills taking place in that part of the water? I mean, what impact could that have? Not just on the safety of the fishermen, but on the fish stock.

Look, seriously, there's enough families around here that have lost their loved ones to the sea.

you know, and that's enough of a danger to be facing without going out facing a military exercise.

Now at the same time, they're forced to go out there because that's their fishing, that's their job, you know,

And so they're going to be relieved. It's as simple as that. So we're delighted for this. This is a brilliant result.

And we have to thank the the Russians for actually acknowledging that we played a small part in this. You know that that's good for us. That's really nice.