Armed Russian tanker with machine guns reportedly spotted in Gulf of Finland

Estonian border guards reportedly recorded the first instance of a civilian Russian tanker armed with machine guns in the Gulf of Finland in May.

Source: European Pravda, citing Estonian media outlet Eesti Ekspress and Finnish media outlet Helsingin Sanomat

Details: The Estonian outlet was the first to obtain aerial photographs taken from an Estonian border guard surveillance aircraft, showing a machine gun on board the Russian vessel Marshal Vasilevsky – a Gazprom LNG tanker carrying liquefied gas from mainland Russia to the Kaliningrad Oblast.

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The footage, taken in early May, is described as the first evidence that a Russian tanker may be armed.