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Mystery submarine in
the waters of Russia Stockholm
Corvette Sweden's
hunt for the mysterious submarine in the waters of Stockholm.
Navy of Sweden expanded
the search efforts after emerging suspicions that a
submarine Russia may have problems in the waters of Stockholm.
The military has
called for all civilian ships for not being on peairan between Nattaroisland and
the Gatt Danzinger.
A source of Sweden told
the BBC that the submarine was spotted in the water about25
km (16 miles) from Stockholm.
Russia's Defense Ministry denied the
occurrence of the "unusual situation" on its
ships.
It is said, the
possibility of warning systems Sweden lit up by the NetherlandsSubmarine conducting exercises in
the area.
However, this
theory has been refuted Netherlands Ministry of defence.
"It's certainly
not the Netherlands submarine," said a Ministry
spokesman in the Haguetold the BBC.
Genesis terpola
A search involving helicopters, ships
and have entered the fourth day.
Sweden denied the military was
searching for the submarine, but are investigating the"foreign activities under
the sea," with an intelligence operation.
A battleship Sweden in
search of the submarine's mysterious "foreigners".
Navy of Sweden has
asked all vessels to stay away at least half a mile from the
militaryships.
An official of Sweden,
who did not want his name known, told the BBC that the
airspace around the search area have also been closed.
He doubted the
incident occurred due to an error of navigation.
When asked why roughly a foreign submarine attempted
to enter the waters ofSweden, officials said, "it's always
about testing the readiness of Sweden, to seewhether we are awake
and able to detect ... it is a way to test our skills in
detectingand localizing the."
Sweden remains
open up everything possible about which country was
behind the incident, the officials said. He added that
there was a similar pattern in the events in the past.
Operating day and
night
The appearance of the Soviet submarines during
the cold war in the past, sparked asecurity alert in Sweden in the
1980s.
Sweden The Local news
site said the ship and the army have been deployed
fromMoeja, North of Stockholm, to the Ornoe, South of the
capital, using sensors in theoperation "took
place day and night".
The Baltic region is
engulfed in tension in the last few months, following the conflict
in the East of Ukraine which gave rise to concerns
about Russia's involvement again.
Russia has a
number of submarines based in Kaliningrad, Russia's enclave locatedbetween Poland and Lithuania,
and Sweden, as well as facing a much stronger fleetagain near Murmansk on the
Kola peninsula.
Last month, the
newspaper Expressen, Sweden reported Sweden airspace violations byRussia of
two fighter aircraft, Sukhoi Su-24.
Sweden immediately launched jet aircraft to
drive it. (BBC)
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