The Swedish navy had vessels in place before the explosions
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red. PSt 4. October 2022
Karlskronavarvet. Photo: Jonas Helmersson/Försvarsmakten
The Swedish navy had ships in place in the areas concerned, in the days before the sabotage against gas lines Nord stream 1 and 2, reports the Dagens Nyheter. But the Swedish armed forces don't want to say what the ships did on the site.
DN: The Swedish navy had ship on the spot before the explosions
The Swedish navy's ships were in the area from Thursday to Saturday, and on Monday night the startling blasts took place. DN has used a commercial service to track the movements, which is based on the signals from the so-called AIS transponders on ships.
These transmitters shows where the ships are, but can be turned off when needed. According to the newspaper was the ships on Thursday, just on the north of the place where it was discovered three gas leaks. They were also in the area on Friday. AIS transmission seems to have been turned off, but when it was turned on again, were the vessels in place at the southern area, where it was discovered another gas leak.
Then they returned to the northern areas with the three later leaks. On the night of Monday, when the gas lines had been pushed, was it not possible to see whether the ships were in place by the help of the AIS system, according to DN.
– AIS-data from the current day shows that the transmitters are switched off when the ships approach exactly the areas where gas lines runs, notes DN.
Jimmie Adamsson, a naval officer, don't want to answer what the ships did on the site, but refers to strict secrecy. – Our operations at sea are subject to extra secrecy because of the different events and the global situation. So we don't tell you very much about what we are doing, " says Jimmie Adamsson.
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Not a coincidence”
SVT writes:
The newspaper Dagens Nyheter has
mapped ship movements in the area where the explosions on the gas pipelines Nord Stream 1 and 2 took place. It turns out that the Swedish Navy had ships in the area in the days before the sabotage.
- I don't think it's a coincidence, considering the behavior, says Niklas Granholm, analyst at FOI.
Niklas Granholm is a research leader at the Total Defense Research Institute, FOI, and knowledgeable about military activity in the Baltic Sea. According to him, there is a little too much that matches in time and space for it to be a coincidence.
- It could probably be that the navy has some kind of intelligence image in the background, he says to SVT Nyheter.
The navy has confirmed to DN via its press spokesperson that the information is correct, that ships have been in the area and carried out maritime surveillance. But cannot say what the purpose was, citing strict confidentiality.
M. K. Bhadrakumar comments
In a
long tweet the indian diplomat M. K. Bhadrakumar gives his comment to Sweden's role:
The Swedish newspaper Dagens News revealed that the Swedish navy was active in the area of the Nord Stream gas pipelines 22. September and carried out "certain manoeuvres over the northern part of the pipelines that pass along the seabed." It was later discovered 3 major gas leaks there.
The Swedish navy admitted since these manoeuvres, but refuses to discuss the nature of the mission, or even when the ships finally left the area with the assertion that "the current secrecy laws" do not allow public disclosure.
The Swedish navy ship had turned off the transmitters during its mission that would have allowed the tracking of its exact course.
The impression of the World of Sweden is a benign social democracy steeped in humanism, development and peace. But in reality, Sweden has one of the most ruthlessly effective spy agencies in the West.
Swedish intelligence played a crucial role in Ukraine's transformation since 2014 as anti-Russian state. It is also actively participating in the war. During the Cold War, the Soviets considered Sweden as a de facto NATO country and its ‘diplomats’ in Moscow were under strict surveillance.
The catastrophic defeat in 1709 to king Carl XII in the battle of Poltava against tsar Peter (which ends the Swedish imperial history) is embedded deep in the psyche and has metastasized as Russophobia.
Sweden fears Russian retaliation for the previous hostile actions, and therefore it is urgent to search NATO protection.