Presidential aide Nikolai Patrushev called the European raids on shadow fleet ships "piracy," and expressed concern that the next step would be a full-fledged blockade.
  • UnspecificGravity@piefed.socialEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Hilariously, this threat is actually a threat to send nuclear reactors into their regions and sink them because the Russian navy wouldn’t pose a military obstacle to Belgium, let alone the rest of the EU.

    • DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Hey, now, if Russia manages to build a replacement for the floating drydock that sank, they might be able to move their one aircraft carrier into strike range, and then we’ll really be in trouble…

      When it sinks into the Baltic Sea.

      • UnspecificGravity@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        4 days ago

        Fortunately that piece of shit doesn’t even have a nuclear reactor so it would amount to a (still pretty bad) heavy fuel oil spill, but honestly that happens whether it sinks or not.

  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    6·
    4 days ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_shadow_fleet

    Various tactics are adopted to make it harder to track vessels in the shadow fleet; these include renaming the ships, changing their country of registration, sailing under false flags, switching off tracking signals, and broadcasting false locations.

    Even disregarding all the politics around sanction evasion and espionage, this stuff is reason enough to seize these vessels.