The incident which occurred on Wednesday Baltic Sea involving a French navy plane on a mission toI’LL TAKE marks a new escalation of tensions with the Russia. The aircraft Atlantic 2which was carrying out a submarine cable surveillance mission, was the target of a jamming attempt and a “ illumination » by a Russian fire control radar.
According to the Colonel Guillaume Vernetspokesperson for the general staff of the French armies, this action described as aggressive demonstrates hostility “ contained » from Russia. However, the professionalism of the French crew made it possible to avoid any escalation while continuing the surveillance mission.
A context of growing tensions between Russia and the West
This provocation takes place in a particularly tense context in the Baltic Sea, where several submarine telecommunications and power cables were recently damaged. On December 25, the câble EstLink 2 connecting Finland to Estonia, as well as four other telecommunications cables, suffered suspicious damage.
American General Christopher Cavoli, commander of NATO forces in Europe, described the incident as “quite serious” while stressing that this type of provocation is “quite widespread” and goes beyond the European framework. The French plane, which spent nearly five hours on the mission, checked around 200 ships without spotting any suspicious activity.
-Suspicions of Russian sabotage
European leaders suspect acts of “ hybrid warfare » orchestrated by Moscowparticularly after the identification of the tanker Eagle Ssuspected of belonging to the Russian “ghost fleet” and currently seized by the Finnish police as part of the cable sabotage investigation.
An incident which occurs in a context marked by a worsening of tensions between the West and the Russiaagainst the backdrop of the war in Ukraine. However, the coming to power of Donald Trump on January 20 could change a lot of things.
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