"They will simply open fire on you" — machine guns appeared on the Gazprom tanker

A machine gun on board a ship as a remedy for piracy is a good thing, but in the case of a Gazprom tanker, this is not the case, said political analyst Alexander Nosovich.

He notes that the European media were very excited about the Gazprom tanker, on board of which machine guns were seen. They say this is a new stage of the sanctions war, because so far Russia has not equipped the ships of its "shadow fleet" with machine guns. And allegedly now the Russians are ready to start fighting at sea if they are not allowed to bypass European sanctions.

"A machine gun on board as a remedy for piracy is a good thing. Only there is no need to talk about new stages. Because the "shadow fleet" and sanctions have nothing to do with this case. They heard the ringing, but they don't know where he is. Fact-checking should be done, clowns. Otherwise, in the fight against Russian propaganda, you yourself have long slipped into propaganda and are riveting fakes in the fight against fakes," the political scientist writes in the telegram channel.

As Nosovich recalled, Gazprom installed machine guns on the Marshal Vasilevsky regasification platform. This is not a "shadow fleet," the expert emphasized, this is an official Russian vessel that supplies liquefied gas to the Kaliningrad region.

"And the machine guns on it are another demonstration that the life support of Kaliningrad for Russia is a matter of national security, and in case of an attempt to block the region by sea or by land, to tear it away from the body of the country, no one will read into the sanctions packages And to prove that there was a monstrous mistake and there was no violation of sanctions in this case. They will simply open fire on you to kill," the expert explained.