Russian submarine pursued by fighter jets and warships in Baltic Sea, Sweden says

The Swedish military said on Wednesday it was tracking a Russian submarine that entered the Baltic Sea a day earlier, amid rising tensions in the region.

“A Russian submarine entered the Baltic Sea yesterday through the Great Belt,” a Danish strait, the Swedish military said in a statement.

“The armed forces’ fighter jets and warships encountered the submarine in Kattegatt (strait between Denmark and Sweden) and are now tracking it,” he said.

The Swedish navy, which released two images of the incident, said it was “a routine operation that was carried out in close collaboration with our allies,” adding that it had a “good overview of our immediate vicinity.”

Tensions over the Baltic Sea have increased since Russia’s large-scale attack. invasion of ukraine in 2022.

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said in January that Sweden “is not at war, but there is no peace either.”

The country abandoned two centuries of military non-alliance to join NATO in 2024.

Kristersson said the entire Baltic Sea region was subject to “hybrid attacks”, referring to disinformation and a series of incidents involving damaged undersea cables.

“It is very likely that the Russian threat is long-term. As should be our defense,” he said.

Last year, Finnish special forces took control of the Eagle Sa tanker in Russia’s shadow fleet, after it dragged its anchor and severed critical undersea cables in the Baltic Sea. The maneuver, which would later be described as a “turning point”, was the first time Finnish forces had boarded and captured a foreign ship since World War II.

A duration of seven months Investigation “60 minutes” revealed that the Eagle S incident was It is not an isolated case. Authorities suspect Russian aggression targeting underwater infrastructure, prompting NATO to launch the “Baltic Sentry,” deploying ships and aircraft to monitor the shadow fleet and safeguard critical seafloor infrastructure.

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