Russia has reacted after claiming that its submarine has surfaced off the coast of France

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Russia has denied reports that one of its submarines was experiencing technical problems after a ship surfaced off the coast of northern France.

NATO’s Marine Command published photographs What it said on 9 October was that a French Navy frigate was observing a Russian submarine operating on the surface off the coast of Brittany.

“NATO stands ready to defend our alliance with continued vigilance.” marine awareness Across the Atlantic,” it posted on Twitter, without naming the submarine.

A French Navy frigate monitors the Alliance's maritime approaches, marking the presence of a Russian submarine

A French Navy frigate monitors the Alliance’s maritime approaches, marking the presence of a Russian submarine ,nato,

VChK-OGPU, a shady Telegram channel that publishes alleged Russian security leaks, reported last month that the diesel-powered submarine Novorossiysk It was suffering from serious technical problems due to fuel leakage.

On Monday, state media published a statement from Russia’s Black Sea Fleet denying Novorossiysk Came out of France due to technical emergency. It said the submarine was carrying out a scheduled transit after completing a task in the Mediterranean Sea, and had surfaced in accordance with international navigation rules. English Channel,

State news agency TASS said the ship, which entered service in 2014, was part of a group of submarines that carry Caliber cruise missiles.

Meanwhile, prosecutors in Poland have charged two Russians citizens One of them has been arrested on charges of spying for Russian intelligence and conspiring to send a parcel of explosives, prosecutors said on Monday.

European authorities are on high alert for explosive packages after Britain, Germany and a series of explosions at courier depots near the Polish capital Warsaw in July 2024. Western officials have blamed Russia for those incidents.

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Moscow has denied the allegations.

Vladimir Putin speaks at a meeting of the Council of State of the Commonwealth of Heads of Independent States at the Palace of the Nation in Dushanbe on October 10.

Vladimir Putin speaks at a meeting of the Council of State of the Commonwealth of Heads of Independent States at the Palace of the Nation in Dushanbe on October 10. ,AFP via Getty,

One of the Russians, called Igor R under Polish secrecy laws, was accused of taking part in a plot to send parcel bombs through couriers, for which a Ukrainian citizen was also charged earlier this year.

Prosecutors said, “The parcel contained explosive devices and materials in the form of nitroglycerin, as well as hidden military-grade electric detonators and initiating devices… The entire package contained a so-called shaped charge bomb.”

Igor R. and his wife Irina were also accused of providing Russian intelligence information about Russian opposition activists living in Poland, as well as individuals and institutions providing support to them.

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