The Russian Defense Ministry believes the military operation in the Baltic conducted by Sweden in search of possible "foreign underwater activity" can only lead to undermining stability and escalate tension in the region, reports GHN based on RT.
"Such unfounded actions of the Swedish Defense Department, fuelled by the Cold War-style rhetoric, are only leading today to escalation of tension in the region," Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov told journalists on Friday.
"It might result not in strengthening of a particular country's security, but in undermining the principles of the naval economic activity in the Baltic Sea," he added.
Konashenkov said Russian military officials were anticipating "the culmination of the exciting operation" accompanied by "never-ceasing speculations by the Swedish over detecting a ‘Russian submarine' in the region of the Stockholm archipelago."
Sweden started its largest since the Cold War military operation in the Baltic a week ago, explaining that the troops were engaged in search of a possible "foreign underwater activity."
The Swedish media alleged the operation could be the hunt for a "damaged Russian submarine" in the area.
