The ships that were caught or suspected of doing this kind of attacks all entered the Baltic though the Danish straits.
Theoretically Russia could use the White Sea–Baltic Canal to take the ships to the Baltic, but that would limit the ship size, be more cumbersome, and basically paint a target on the ships as soon as they show up outside russian waters.
Yeah, but we can’t blockade the whole area, that would be unlawful and disruptive as well. And these ships are not “technically Russian”, everyone flies some flag of convenience, so it comes back to the first problem of international shipping being and unregulated wild west.
But this didn’t happen in the Danish straits, it happened near Gotland, far enough from it that it’s not Danish waters.
Or didn’t it? The article doesn’t load correctly for me.
The ships that were caught or suspected of doing this kind of attacks all entered the Baltic though the Danish straits. Theoretically Russia could use the White Sea–Baltic Canal to take the ships to the Baltic, but that would limit the ship size, be more cumbersome, and basically paint a target on the ships as soon as they show up outside russian waters.
Yeah, but we can’t blockade the whole area, that would be unlawful and disruptive as well. And these ships are not “technically Russian”, everyone flies some flag of convenience, so it comes back to the first problem of international shipping being and unregulated wild west.
Which ships would you ban from crossing?