MOSCOW: The Kremlin said today it was “absurd” to suggest that a drone jammed near a French aircraft carrier in Sweden earlier this week was Russian, after Stockholm said there was a “strong link” to Moscow.
Stockholm said a Swedish navy vessel spotted and jammed the drone on Wednesday in the Oresund Strait, around 13km from France’s Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, which was there at a stopover on the way to a Nato exercise.
On Thursday, Sweden’s defence minister Pal Jonson told the broadcaster SVT that the drone “probably” came from Russia, “as there was a Russian military vessel in the immediate vicinity at the time of the facts”.