Outdated rules governing access to the Baltic Sea must be changed due to Russia's shadow fleet, urges Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski.
The NATO exercise Baltops, which begins tomorrow in the Baltic Sea, is, according to Russia, ‘extremely provocative’. The exercise, in which Sweden and the United States are participating, is seen as a build-up to combat against Russia.
Russia is taking measures to protect its sanctions-evading ‘shadow fleet,’ according to state-controlled media. The Russian navy is said to have begun escorting the ships through the Baltic Sea.
Britain is imposing new sanctions on Russia's so-called shadow fleet that transports oil in the Baltic Sea, according to the British government.
The alleged ‘spy whale’ Hvaldimir was shot dead, claim the organisations One Whale and Noah. The animal rights organisations have filed a police report in connection with the whale's death, they said in a press release.
He has been seen in several places along the Swedish coast in recent days, but suddenly the alleged spy whale Hvaldimir appeard in the middle of Gothenburg's harbor.
A white whale has been branded a Russian spy. If that is true, only Russia knows. But there is a long history of using marine mammals for military missions around the world – as mine detectors, sentries and submarine hunters.
The beluga whale that caused a stir in Hunnebostrand could be Hvaldimir – a Russian "spy whale" that escaped from a mission, reports P4 Väst.
