Russian warship violated Danish territorial waters in Baltic Sea

The incidents passed off as an annual competition attended by senior legislators and businesspeople was underneath approach close by.

Denmark is a member of NATO and has despatched each anti-tank launchers and an anti-ship missile system to Ukraine after Russia's invasion in February [File: AP]

A Russian warship twice violated Danish territorial waters within the Baltic Sea as senior politicians gathered shut by for a democracy competition on Friday.

The incidents passed off because the annual competition attended by senior legislators and businesspeople was underneath approach on a close-by island.

The Russian warship entered Danish waters with out authorisation at 2:30am (00:30 GMT) and once more a couple of of hours later, the armed forces mentioned in a assertion. After a radio message from the Danish navy, the ship instantly left the realm.

The island of Christianso is situated 300km (190 miles) from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.

Overseas minister Jeppe Kofod summoned the Russian ambassador over the incident.

“A deeply irresponsible, gross and fully unacceptable Russian provocation in the midst of #fmdk,” Kofod wrote on Twitter, referring to the annual political occasion going down close by.

“Bully techniques don't work in opposition to Denmark. The Russian ambassador had been summoned.”

Et russisk militærfartøj har i nat to gange krænket dansk territorialfarvand

En dybt uansvarlig, grov og fuldstændig uacceptabel russisk provokation midt underneath #fmdk

Bøllemetoder virker ikke mod Danmark

Russiske ambassadør hasteindkaldt i Udenrigsministeriet#dkpol#WeAreNATO

— Jeppe Kofod (@JeppeKofod) June 17, 2022

The annual competition is attended by senior authorities officers, together with Kofod and Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen.

There had, nonetheless, been no rapid risk in opposition to the occasion, Danish defence minister Morten Bodskov instructed native media.

“We should settle for that the Baltic Sea is turning into a high-tension space,” Bodskov mentioned, including this was not the primary time Russia had violated Danish territory.

Denmark is a member of NATO and has despatched each anti-tank launchers and an anti-ship missile system to Ukraine since Russia’s invasion in February.

Ukraine’s defence minister mentioned final month that Kyiv had began receiving Harpoon missiles from Denmark, deliveries that had been the results of cooperation between a number of nations.

On Friday, Ukraine mentioned its forces hit a Russian naval tugboat with two Harpoon missiles within the Black Sea, the primary time it claimed to have struck a Russian vessel with Western-supplied anti-ship weapons.

The Russian embassy in Copenhagen didn't instantly reply to requests for remark by electronic mail and cellphone.