{"id":38645,"date":"2024-07-02T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=38645"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:05:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:05:56","slug":"kieler-woche-review-russian-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/kieler-woche-nachklapp-russische-aktivitaeten\/","title":{"rendered":"Kieler Woche: Follow-up Russian activities"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the end of last week, unusual movements by the Russian navy and Russian state vessels were once again observed right on the doorstep of Kiel Bay in the Fehmarnbelt. On 22 June 2024, the Russian oil tanker (RFS) \"Yaz\" and the Steregushiy-class corvette RFS \"Stoikiy\" passed through the Fehmarnbelt in the direction of St. Petersburg. The corvette had previously passed the Danish Straits heading north from the Baltiysk naval base on 19 June 2024. It was assumed that the RFS \"Stoikiy\" was deployed to protect the oil tanker RFS \"Yaz\", which was approaching the Skagerrak at the time.<\/p>\n

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Russian tanker \"Yaz\" accompanied by the corvette \"Stoikiy\". Photo: Michael Nitz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The tanker \"Yaz\" moved north from Tartus (Syria) at the end of May and passed Gibraltar on 13 June 2024, followed by the Strait of Dover five days later. Before the oil tanker passed Skagen on 21 June 2024 and entered the Baltic Sea, the rendezvous with the Baltic Fleet battleship took place in the Skagerrak the day before. After a night passage through the Great Belt, the small convoy passed the Fehmarn Belt on 22 June 2024 in the direction of the Central Baltic Sea with destination St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n

The Russian convoy was escorted through the Fehmarnbelt into the Pomeranian Bay by the FGS \"Bayreuth\", an operational vessel of the Federal Police Sea. The forces of the Federal Police are currently under great strain due to the numerous movements of the Russian navy and Russian state vessels. On the doorstep of Kiel Bay, where the international naval units of the large-scale manoeuvre BALTOPS gathered at the end of last week and prepared to enter the Kiel naval base on Friday, one of the Russian Navy's most powerful reconnaissance ships had already taken up position on Thursday morning, 20 June 2024.<\/p>\n

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Russian corvette \"Stoikiy\" (Steregushchiy class) as an escort ship. Photo: Michael Nitz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The RFS \"Vasiliy Tatishchev\" has taken up a roadstead in international waters north-west of Fehmarn and south-east of the Danish island of Langeland to gather information. The 91.5 metre long and 3,470 tonne displacement vessel was monitored around the clock by the Danish Navy and the German Federal Maritime Police until it left this sea area. After the majority of the NATO ships with the strongest combat capabilities, which were visiting Kiel Week after the end of the manoeuvre, had made their way back to their home ports or the next operational areas on Monday afternoon (24 June 2024), the Russian reconnaissance unit moved eastwards later in the evening on the same day.<\/p>\n

What else is remarkable: While the \"Vasiliy Tatishchev\" was carrying out its information and reconnaissance activities for five days, the German survey vessel FGS \"Deneb\" of the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH), among others, monitored the seabed in the corresponding sea area as part of its mission.<\/p>\n

Text\/Photos. Michael Nitz Naval-Press-Service<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ende letzter Woche waren direkt vor der Haust\u00fcr der Kieler Bucht im Fehmarnbelt erneut ungew\u00f6hnliche Bewegungen der russischen Marine bzw. russischen Staatsschiffe zu beobachten. Am 22. Juni 2024 hat der russische \u00d6ltanker (RFS) \"Yaz\" zusammen mit der Steregushiy-Klasse Korvette RFS \"Stoikiy\" den Fehmarnbelt in Richtung St. Petersburg passiert. Zuvor hatte die Korvette aus Richtung des […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"3high","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,486,42,50],"tags":[2339,1324,1304,1386,2561,3126,1617,7592,340,326,5229],"class_list":["post-38645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marinen-aus-aller-welt-news","category-headlines","category-news","category-sicherheitspolitik-news","tag-aufklaerung","tag-baltops","tag-bsh","tag-bundespolizei","tag-fehmarn","tag-kieler-bucht","tag-kieler-woche","tag-langeland","tag-nato","tag-russische-marine","tag-spionage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49616,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38645\/revisions\/49616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}