Dozens of NATO warship positions near Russia being faked, but why?
Alex Hollings | July 29, 2021
More than a hundred warships from as many as 14 nations may have had their locations faked on a global tracking system used to monitor maritime activity and help prevent collisions. The spoofing seems to be happening, but who’s behind it and why?
The potential for international incidents
On June 18 of this year, a system used to track the locations of vessels on the open ocean showed two NATO warships steam out of port in Odessa, Ukraine near midnight, under cover of darkness. The two ships, one British Destroyer and one Frigate from the Royal Netherlands, set course through the Black Sea to Sevastopol, the strategic headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea fleet.
Before long, the HMS Defender and HNLMS Evertsen had closed to within just two nautical miles of the Russian port, in what seemed like one of the most brazenly aggressive acts taken by NATO warships in recent memory. Parking so close to the epicenter of Russia’s military might in the region would almost certainly prompt a response. Indeed, later that same week, Russian warships would claim to fire warning shots at the very same British destroyer in the very same region.
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