The images of two submarines between Helsinki (Finland) and Tallin (Estonia)sighted on Tuesday afternoon, they have lasted alarms in northern Europe. They are Russians, yes.
According to the Finnish newspaper a citizen named Mike Lahtinen, who was traveling from Tallin to Helsinki in the XPRS Viking, was the one who sighted them. His ship left for Tallin to Helsinki at five in the afternoon (local time, one hour less in Madrid), when he saw the two ships, Around 18:20, coming from the east.
“The submarines were already visible from afar. One of them approached the ship quite a lotbut then they continued their trip to Tallin, “says Lahtinen to the aforementioned medium.
As he explains, not many ship’s passengers noticed the presence of the submarines. He could take Photographs and videos and sent them to the aforementioned newspaper. One of the videos was filmed by Aapeli Nyrhilä, who was also traveling in the Viking XPrs. There are, therefore, several witnesses of what happened.
Once the images have been reviewed, It can be affirmed that these are two diesel engine attacks on the Baltic Russian fleetaffirms the military and blogger expert Petri Mäkelä.
Mäkelä, says the newspaper, identified the submarines based on the photographs and videos taken by Lahtinen. “The Lada class submarine advances in the lead, followed by the Kilo class submarine”reports. The submarines consider Kronstadt as their base port and, therefore, they are regular guests in the Gulf of Finland, he adds.
“In the satellite images now, The Krnstadt submarine dock is empty. They were there the other night, we know it thanks to social networks, “says Mäkelä. As he says, the observations made on the submarines They are not exceptional. “The movement of submarines in question is normal“, he insists.” Lately, they usually move alone, but Lada, which has a reputation unreliableit is usually accompanied by an escort. “
According to the analyst, both ships have relatively similar cruise torpedo and cruise missiles. “Kilo class submarines have been used a lot to shoot cruise missiles to Ukraine from the Black Sea”concludes.
