In fact, Russian propaganda is shifting responsibility for any accidents involving vessels of its shadow fleet, which, to put it mildly, do not quite meet international operating standards and are not safe at all, especially in the harsh conditions of the Baltic.
New NATO members Finland and Sweden are increasingly involved in the security of the Baltic region, which has seen a number of aggressive Russian moves including sabotages of undersea infrastructure. However, the potential for cooperation with the Baltic countries has merely been tapped.
A wave of "accidents"/sabotages in the Baltic Sea suggests that the tanker fleet used by Russia to evade Western sanctions is also being deployed in the hybrid warfare that Moscow is waging against the West.
