The Russian Submarine ....
Which all these Swedish marine assets are searching for
Photos - Swedish navy
Commander Jonas Wikström showing a map of the investigated area at a press conference held on Saturday.
In a press conference on Sunday evening, Rear Admiral Anders Grenstad, said it was likely that a foreign power was undertaking “underwater activities” around the islands off the coast of Sweden’s capital city.The Armed Forces also released a photo of a suspicious object taken on Sunday morning. Grenstad said the photographer had “seen something on the surface, and after he took the picture it sunk down again.”
But Grenstad said they had not established that the suspicious object or objects were submarines. Numerous newspaper reports have said that a damaged Russian submarine was the cause of the alert.
"The information that the Armed Forces has does not allow us to draw the conclusion that it is a damaged Russian submarine," he said. Grenstad said the purpose of Sweden’s current operations was to verify if there is indeed foreign activity in the Baltic Sea off Stockholm. He refused to say whether Russia had been identified as the likely culprit.
He said that three separate sightings had been reported in stretches of water near Stockholm - Kanholmfjärden, Nämdöfjärden and Jungfrufjärden - and that these occurred on Friday and on Sunday. Christian Allerman, who twice served as Sweden’s marine attaché in Moscow, said Russia was the likeliest suspect.
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