Plan to sabotage offshore wind farms and telecommunication cables in North Sea supposedly organized Russiaaccording to new journalistic disclosures.

According to a joint survey of state media Denmark, Norway, Sweden and FinlandRussia has a fleet of operational vessels ostensibly as fishing and research vessels in the North Sea. However, in reality they carry underwater surveillance equipment and map key locations that could be targets for sabotage.

The first of a series of reports is expected to air today Wednesday on Danish DR, Norwegian NRK, Swedish SVT and Finnish Yle.

According to a Danish counterintelligence officer, the Russians are striking at possible sabotage for full conflict with the West.

According to the head of the Norwegian intelligence services, this program is considered extremely important for Russia and is controlled directly by Moscow.

Investigative journalists claim to have analyzed intercepted Russian communications that indicate how Ghost ships sail in Scandinavian waters with their transmitters disabled not to reveal their whereabouts.

The investigation is focused on a Russian vessel named Admiral Vladimirsky. Officially, this is an oceanographic research vessel, however, according to the press, it is actually a spy vessel.

In the documentary, a former Royal Navy expert, on condition of anonymity, tracks the movements of a vessel during a mission in the offshore zone of seven wind farms off the coast of the UK and the Netherlands.

According to a former British official, the ship slows down when approaching areas where there are wind farms, and for a month it sailed with its transmitters turned off. When the reporter approached the ship in a small boat, he was confronted by a masked man with what appeared to be a military assault rifle.

The same ship was reportedly sighted last year off the coast of Scotland, 30 nautical miles east of Lossiemouth, where the Royal Air Force’s fleet of naval patrol aircraft is based.

This investigative journalism raises the possibility that such vessels are linked to last October’s submarine cable sabotage incident south of Svalbard.

It is noted that in February, the Dutch intelligence services issued an unusual official warning of activity, which indicated preparation for sabotage or disruption of maritime infrastructure.

Source: BBC