With our regional correspondent, Carlotta Morteo
Using maritime traffic data, intercepted radio communications and thanks to the ship’s AIS (this system for identifying and geolocating ships), the journalists followed the movements of about fifty Russian ships that have sailed close, too close over the past decade. …to oil and gas infrastructure or military exercise areas, particularly during exercises conducted by NATO forces.
wave detectors
The journalists’ findings are confirmed by various Nordic intelligence services, in particular the Norwegian intelligence director confirms that a wave detector was confiscated on a Russian fishing boat, which was apparently collecting information alongside its commercial activity.
Others are more like phantom boats with suspicious movements, and their activities appear to be directly monitored by the Russian army: the Admiral-Vladimorsky, for example, which is officially an oceanographic research vessel, would have been used to map the seabed infrastructures: internet cables, oil pipelines or power grids connecting wind turbines at sea, in the Baltic Sea and in the North Sea.
Uniform
A Danish TV crew approached this boat and was able to film the moment when several masked men appear on the deck, one of them in uniform, wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying a rifle.Russian automatic attack.
“The Shadow War” (“Skuggkrieget” in Swedish) is an exciting journalistic series in three parts of three hours each. The next two episodes will air on the channels on April 26th and May 3rd SVTDR, NRK and Yle.
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