A Russian Navy corvette ordered a Greenpeace team to stay away from a sanctioned oil tanker carrying Russian crude through the Baltic Sea on June 30, according to the environmental group.
The incident took place during a monitoring mission in Germany’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and highlighted the security surrounding Russia’s oil exports through European waters.
The mission involved Greenpeace activists from Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Ukraine, along with members of the German Bundestag, the European Parliament and journalists.
They were documenting the passage of the Panamanian-flagged tanker Kira K, which Greenpeace identifies as part of Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet” used to transport Russian oil despite Western sanctions.
According to Greenpeace Nordic’s head of investigations, Maik Marahrens, the German coast guard vessel Bayreuth had reached the monitoring area when the Russian Steregushchiy-class corvette Soobrazitelny (hull number 531) approached at high speed from the east.
Marahrens said the Russian warship sent a radio message saying, “Here speaks Russian
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