Paris (AP) – The man claims. Our ship is difficult, so keep the distance and he instructs another container on the radio.
“A warship on your course,” he says. “I'm drifting away. I'm not under command.”
According to military officials, the broadcast came from the Russian spy ship Kildin. The vessel, packed with intelligence signal equipment, drifted temporarily off the coast of Syria on January 23, with flames and black smoke rising from the smokestack. .
The Associated Press said the broadcast had obtained audio, video and photos showing the flames, and three military officials were collected by ships from the NATO country, operating nearby. Also, NATO national officials spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss fires and radio communications that Russian authorities have not reported publicly.
The audio is a rare peep in a fleet of spy ships that NATO countries often watch due to concerns that Moscow could interfere with underwater cables and pipelines amid the tensions of war in Ukraine. Provides. Despite Kildin was in trouble, the secret ship did not respond to offers of assistance from the NATO ship, officials said.
The UK tracked down another Russian vessel last month that it identified as a spy ship for the British Channel. The Defense Department said Yantal was “relaxed to a critical undersea infrastructure,” and that a Royal Navy submarine had surfaced near the ship.
Kildin, 55, was active near naval practice by members of the Alliance by Turkey before the fire, according to officials who gathered intelligence on NATO activities in the Mediterranean Sea and spoke with the Associated Press.
They said the flames were burning for at least four hours and Kildin's crew removed the cover from the lifeboat, but never put it in the sea.
Kildin also wound two black balls out of the mast. This is a maritime signal that the ship can no longer pilot it, officials said.
They said that the crew eventually regained control and Kildin was still stationed, gathering intelligence information from Syria's Tartus port, accompanied by a frigate and a supply vessel. It is not clear what caused the flames.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he was unaware of the fire aboard the Kildin and did not say what the ship was doing at the time.
He rejected the proposal that it was not very much reflected in the preparations of the Russian navy. “Evaluating the condition of a fleet based on failures in a particular ship or a particular malfunction is not professional,” Peskov said.
Retired Vice President Michel Orhagalei, former chief of the French Center for Advanced Military Studies, said that even if Kildin regains steering, the fire underscores logistical difficulties for Russia, which maintains a Mediterranean navy. I stated. The Arctic and the Baltic Sea.
Moscow also became unable to use the Black Sea Fleet to patrol the Mediterranean, as it did not allow turkeys to pass through the Bosphorus that linked the Black people to the Mediterranean during the Ukrainian War.
“The maintenance of this Russian fleet, especially in the Mediterranean, is extremely complicated,” Orhagarley said.
The audio collected by the NATO ship is a 75-second radio exchange between Kildin and a cargo ship in the Togo Formation, officials said.
The AP also obtained a second recording of the conversation between the crew aboard the NATO ship. In it, they can be heard identifying the exchange they just monitored as being between the Kildin and the Togo ship. Military authorities provided both recordings to the AP, but it was unable to authenticate them independently.
Websites occurring at the identity, location, speed and course of ship tracking websites using data containers began lifting anchors north from Tartus along the Syrian coast on January 23rd. Water from Tartus said military officials.
They said Kildin first asked to switch between different ships, the sky, and channels to continue the conversation.
After the switch, the man with accented English can be heard identifying his ship as a warship.
“Mimoon the motor ship, this is the warship on your course,” a voice is heard in the clip. “Listen to me.”
He asks Miroumon to explicitly pilot him.
“I'm drifting away. I'm not under command,” he says.
Milla Moon responds by plotting the course before signing off. A good watch. Goodbye. “
