This was said by Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Security Service’s (FSB) Border Guard Service Lieutenant General Viktor Trufanov in a briefing in Moscow yesterday, news agency RIA Novosti reports.
Trufanov said that last year border guard vessels started patrolling along the Northeast Passage and in the Sea of Chukchi Sea for the first time in many years.
He also reminded that in August, the Russian coast guard vessel “Neva” from the North-Eastern Border Guard Directorate detained a Norwegian sailboat in the East-Siberian Sea, as BarentsObserver reported.
