Sweden Ready To Use ‘Armed Force’ To Bring Suspicious Vessel To Surface

Wednesday, October 22, 2014
By Paul Martin

Gianluca Mezzofiore, International Business Times
BusinessInsider.com
Oct. 22, 2014

Sweden has said it could use force against a suspected Russian submarine that is believed to have violated its borders on the Baltic Sea less than 30 miles (50 km) from Stockholm.

The supreme commander general Sverker Goeranson warned he was poised to use “armed force, if necessary” to bring the mysterious object to surface, after days of fruitless search. More than 200 troops along with battleships, minesweepers and helicopters have scouted the area off the coasts of the Swedish capital looking for “foreign underwater activity”.

Earlier reports suggested that the object could be a damaged Russian submarine, a U-boat, rekindling memories of the final years of the Cold War when Sweden mobilised its troops to catch Soviet-era submarines along its coasts.

New sightings were reported in the past few hours, although Russian pro-Kremlin media claimed that the foreign submarine belonged to the Dutch Navy.

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