Dozens of Russian ships have patrolled the North Sea in recent months to collect information on wind farms, gas pipelines and electrical cables for possible acts of sabotage, according to a joint investigation by Nordic public television.
“Shadow War”, a report that opens tonight but whose content is advanced by the aforementioned chains on their respective websites, claims to have found at least fifty Russian ships, apparently fishing or research, that made “suspicious” tours of areas where there is critical infrastructure.
Intercepted radio communications suggest that they are “ghost” ships that turn off their locators so as not to reveal where they are.
Espionage experts from the Nordic countries consulted for the report affirm that the vessels are part of an alleged Russian military program to carry out acts of sabotage in case the war in Ukraine spreads to more countries.
The report, which will be released tonight, focuses on a case, that of “Admiral Vladimirsky”, a Russian marine research ship but which, according to sources from the Danish public television DR, is also used for intelligence tasks.
That ship traveled incognito for a month through the Baltic and the North Sea and stopped several times in areas where there are wind farms, while sending radio messages to a Russian military base, according to the investigation.
When the ship was in the Kattegat Strait (which separates the North and Baltic Seas), a reporter for the network approached it in a boat and was confronted by a masked person apparently carrying an assault rifle.
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