In social media and on multiple sites spread information about the Russian nuclear submarine TK-208 Dmitry Donskoy is sinking at the Swedish coast.
The rumor - that can be traced back to a tweet in Russian from a civil rights activist named Pavel Sjechtman - are associated with the ongoing military operation in the Stockholm archipelago.
Carl Bergqvist, who runs the blog defense Wiseman's Wisdoms, asserts emphatically that the data do not contain any substance.
Armed Forces on duty press officer Day Enander says:
- The idea of a Russian nuclear submarine would sink in or just outside the Swedish Swedish water is a grave speculation.
On Sunday, it started to spread information about the Russian nuclear submarine TK-208 Dmitry Donskoy is sinking off the Swedish coast.
The Polish site
Polskie Radio , as well as Russian and Ukrainian websites
Rusjev and
Gordonua,reported on the data and put it in the context of the large Swedish military operation in the archipelago.
Activist
The rumors of the Russian nuclear submarine can be traced to the Russian
twittraren Pavel Sjechtman . Sjechtman describe themselves as civil rights activist, ecologist, historian and member of the environmental movement "Save Khimki Forest" on Twitter.
He tweeted on Sunday:
"Just now called an acquaintance from the Northern fleet staff. Upon the coast of Sweden flag" Dmitry Donskoy ". Putin gives no help. As with the Kursk."
Tweet had late on Sunday night, almost 700 retweets. Kursk was a Russian nuclear submarine that sank in the Arctic Ocean in 2000, when 118 crewmen perished.
Carl Bergqvist, who runs the blog defense
Wiseman's Wisdoms , claims that the data contain any substance.
- This submarine belongs in the Arctic Ocean and to shoot nuclear missiles against the United States. It is impossible that it is in the Baltic Sea, he said.
Great as a baltic
Dmitry Donskoy is approximately 170 meters long and around 26 meters high, compared to the cruise ship Silja Europa is 202 meters long and 53 meters in height.
- These nuclear submarines are large as aircraft carriers. That it would get through the Sound without being detected is not reasonable, said Carl Bergquist and adds:
- To my knowledge, there has never before been inside nuclear submarines in the Baltic Sea.
Armed Forces on duty press officer Day Enander said that the Armed Forces are aware that there is speculation in social media and on websites and taking note of the information.
- I am convinced that you have accessed the data, but I'm not ready to assess the extent of it, but I am convinced that you have read the information spread in social media, he says.
If the data on the large Russian nuclear submarine, he says:
- We have no information about the submarine is sinking. The idea of a Russian nuclear submarine would sink in or just outside the Swedish Swedish water is a grave speculation. It is pure speculation task that shows up in some social media. It's not where we work and act now.
What is the Armed Forces that it is much speculation in social media and on other types of sites?
- We let be rumors and speculation and stick to what we know and what is said.