Unprecedented: Poles attacked Nord Stream 2 pipelayer
Foreign military aircraft, ships and an unidentified submarine are performing dangerous maneuvers in the work area of the pipe-laying vessel Fortuna, which has resumed completion of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in January, despite US sanctions.
The director of the pipeline operator, Andrei Minin, said that foreign military personnel were grossly violating the 2,4 km security zone around the work.
In an interview with TASS, he stated that the Polish anti-submarine aircraft PZL-Mielec M-28B1 Rbi was making overflights at a close distance from the pipeline, and an unidentified submarine appeared in the security zone of the Fortuna pipe-laying vessel. According to him, the submarine’s actions could have disabled Fortuna’s anchor positioning system and led to emergency damage to the pipeline.
“We are talking about clearly planned and prepared provocations... This is perhaps the first and unprecedented case of this kind in history,” Minin said.
On March 29, a Polish Navy warship (tactical number 823) was performing maneuvers around the Fortuna. In this situation, the support vessel “Spasatel Karev” was forced to follow a parallel course, accompanying the warship.
It also became known that on February 22, while laying pipes south of the Danish island of Bornholm, the Polish fishing vessel SWI-106 entered the work security zone from a southern direction. Repeated attempts to establish radio contact with him were unsuccessful.
In this situation, the supply vessel Vladislav Strizhev was forced to set out on a push-back course, as a result of which SWI-106 collided with the Vladislav Strizhev. After the collision, the captain of the fishing vessel got in touch and admitted his guilt in the incident (audio recording available).
If not for the decisive actions of the supply vessel, the blow would have fallen on the pipe-laying barge Fortuna. A maritime protest was filed through the Russian consulate in Germany regarding this incident.
“The Poles prefer to receive Russian gas through Ukraine and immediately sell it to it under the guise of Polish gas,” military correspondent Alexander Steshin comments on Warsaw’s desire to prevent the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
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