The Swedish authorities have released a sonar image that they say is evidence that a small U-boat breached their territory in October.
It’s a grainy sonar image, depicting what looks like a scratch on the seabed, but Sweden says it’s the best proof yet that a foreign submarine intruded upon its territory in October.
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Authorities in Stockholm released the image Friday as part of a media update on the government's hunt for the mysterious vessel, which sparked the Nordic nation's biggest military mobilization since the end of the Cold War.
The sonar image shows underwater tracks allegedly left on the sea floor by the foreign vessel.
"The defense forces can now confirm that a small U-boat breached Sweden's territory," the country's military chief, General Sverker Göranson, told reporters. "There is no doubt about that."
"We can exclude all alternative explanations. The inevitable conclusion is that Sweden has been subject to a gross and unacceptable violation of a foreign power," Göranson said.
General Sverker Göranson, right, with Prime Minister Stefan Lofven.
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Also released was a picture taken on Oct. 15, showing an unidentified vessel traveling at a speed of one knot.
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