As of: March 27, 2024, 5:03 a.m
By: Fabian Hartmann
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After the serious incident in the Baltic Sea, there are now increasing signs that a Russian missed shot could have caused the explosion on board.
Kaliningrad - A serious accident occurred during a Baltic Sea maneuver by the Russian Navy on Tuesday: a fire broke out on the fishing boat "Kapitan Lobanow" as a result of an explosion
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Three crew members are dead and four others injured, Russian broadcaster Dozhd (known internationally as TV Rain) reported.
It initially remained unclear why the fire broke out on the fishing trawler.
Serious incident during a Russian war exercise: Own ship apparently shot at
However, there are now many indications that the fishing trawler was caused to sink by fire from its own ranks.
At least this is what reports from several Russian media outlets say
out.
Accordingly, the ship was hit by a missile that was fired during an exercise by the Baltic Fleet.
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There is no official confirmation yet.
A Russian Navy ship in the Black Sea.
(Archive photo) © IMAGO/Vladimir Astapkovich
The incident occurred within ten miles of the coast of Russia's Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad.
The Russian Navy is said to have held a maneuver there in the past few days.
The scope and objectives of the maneuver are not yet known.
In the Russian maritime area off Kaliningrad in the Baltic Sea, Russia regularly holds naval maneuvers.
The reasons for explosions on fishing trawlers in the Baltic Sea initially remained unclear
Initially, Russian media only reported a fire on board the ship, although no specific reason was initially given.
According to the Russian state news agency
Tass,
the wreck of the ship was still to be transported to the port of Kaliningrad, as the governor's spokesman, Dmitry Lyskov, said.
Video recordings of the accident were also shared on the short message service X (formerly Twitter).
Initially there was talk of one dead and three injured.
The family of the man killed is said to have received one million rubles (around 10,000 euros) in compensation on the orders of Kaliningrad Governor Anton Alikhanov.
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After fire on fishing trawler - relative of one killed describes the course of the accident
The current suspicion that the trawler was accidentally hit by Russian rocket fire was raised by the Dozhd television station.
According to the broadcaster, a relative of a crew member is said to have confirmed this.
Dozhd is a Russian television channel that is internationally called TV Rain and is now headquartered in Amsterdam.
In the wake of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, Dozhd initially stopped broadcasting and then left Russia entirely.
The relative of the first person killed is said to have explained that a missile accidentally hit the trawler as the crew was about to go to sleep.
A fire then broke out and the fishing trawler later sank.
In addition, three crew members are said to have died, the four others were injured, one crew member seriously.
According to the relative, as a result of the accident, the survivors were taken to a hospital in the city of Pionersk.
There, officials from the Russian secret service FSB persuaded the injured not to talk about the incident.
After a supposed Russian miss in the Baltic Sea, the ship can still be located
There is currently no official confirmation of the incident in the Baltic Sea.
The ship can still be found on the website vesselfinder.com.
It is actually located just a few kilometers from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
There have been no updated coordinates for the ship for two days now.
In the fighting between Russia and Ukraine, which has now lasted more than two years, there have been a few cases in which Russia accidentally attacked its own territory.
In Belgorod, Russia, not far from the border with Ukraine, a Russian fighter jet accidentally fired a missile at the city in April last year (April 24, 2023).
The Defense Ministry in Moscow later announced that a Russian fighter jet had “unplanned firing of ammunition.”
And also in February of this year (February 1, 2024), the Russian news channel Astra reported on Telegram about two incidents in which FAB-250 aerial bombs were accidentally dropped on villages in the Belgorod region.
One of the bombs is said to have hit a farm in the village of Postnikov, while the other hit an urban road in another village called Strelestkoye.
It was reported that up to 150 civilians had to be evacuated.
There are said to have been five such incidents within a year, with the first said to have occurred on April 20, 2023.
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