The Swedish Navy has halted its search for an alleged foreign submarine in the country’s territorial waters near Stockholm, The Local cited the Navy as saying Friday.<\/p>\n
“At 8 a.m. local time (06:00 GMT) a major naval operation, launched in the area of the [Stockholm] archipelago last Friday, has completed,” the Navy said in a statement broadcast by the local television.<\/p>\n
No reason was given for abandoning the search.<\/p>\n
On October 22, the Swedish Armed Forces said the search for an alleged foreign submarine is entering a “new phase” and will continue for as long as necessary.<\/p>\n
The Russian Defense Ministry believes the military operation in the Baltic conducted by Sweden in search of possible \u201cforeign underwater activity\u201d can only lead to undermining stability and escalate tension in the region.<\/p>\n
Swedish Armed forces were\u00a0ready to use force if they detected any foreign submarine in the waters of the Stockholm Archipelago, the supreme commander general had said during\u00a0the operation in search of the “underwater threat”.<\/p>\n
\u201cSuch unfounded actions of the Swedish Defense Department, fuelled by the Cold War-style rhetoric, are only leading today to escalation of tension in the region,\u201d Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov told journalists on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt might result not in strengthening of a particular country\u2019s security, but in undermining the principles of the naval economic activity in the Baltic Sea,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Sweden started its largest since the Cold War military operation in the Baltic a week ago, explaining that the troops were engaged in search of a possible \u201cforeign underwater activity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Swedish Navy has halted its search for an alleged foreign submarine in the country’s territorial waters near Stockholm, The Local cited the Navy as saying Friday. “At 8 a.m. local time (06:00 GMT) a major naval operation, launched in the area of the [Stockholm] archipelago last Friday, has completed,” the Navy said in a … Continue reading “Sweden abandons its search for ‘underwater threat’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[6304,10372,10371,10345,185,10370],"class_list":["post-16557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-arctic","tag-cold-war-rhetoric","tag-rusia","tag-submarine","tag-sweden","tag-underwater-threat"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16558,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16557\/revisions\/16558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}