Baltic Sea: Polish navy acts towards ship from Russia’s “shadow fleet” | EUROtoday

The Polish navy went towards a ship of the Russian shadow fleet within the Baltic Sea. “A Russian ship from the ‘shadow fleet’, which is occupied by sanctions, carried out suspicious maneuvers near the power cable between Poland and Sweden,” Prime Minister Donald Tusk wrote on Wednesday on X. “After the effective intervention of our military, the ship drove into one of the Russian ports.”

Poland Minister of Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz defined to journalists {that a} patrol flight drove the ship and {that a} naval ship was on the transfer. According to him, the mission was already on Tuesday. Tusk desires to advise the incident with the marine command in an emergency session.

“This shows how dangerous the times are when we live how serious the situation in the Baltic Sea is,” stated Kosiniak-Kamysz. “Since Sweden and Finland joined the North Atlantic Alliance (NATO), the Baltic Sea has become a key area where most incidents occur, especially those in connection with cable breaks and sabotage.” Poland and NATO will act decisively.

A spokesman for the Polish community operator PSE introduced that the cable was in operation. PSE knowledge confirmed that at 1 p.m. CEST over 600 megawatts flowed to Sweden. The 600 megawatt decrease seas cable connects the Swedish coast close to Karlshamn with UStka in Northern Poland and allows each networks to make use of cross-border deliveries if needed.

NATO has strengthened safety within the Baltic Sea after a collection of incidents have occurred for the reason that Russian full invasion in Ukraine in February 2022, through which energy cables, telecommunications connections and fuel pipelines have been broken. The time period shade fleet refers to ships that Russia makes use of to move oil, weapons and grain by circumventing worldwide sanctions.

The Russian embassy in Warsaw initially didn’t reply to a request for remark made by e-mail. In the previous, the federal government in Moscow has contested any participation in underwater sabotage within the Baltic Sea and claims that the West makes use of such accusations to limit oil exports by sea.