While the world’s attention is focused on Riyadh, where Moscow and Washington held talks, a secret war continues on the seas and oceans. In the Italian port of Savona on February 14, two explosions (according to the crew’s testimony) were heard aboard the tanker Seajewel during the unloading of oil. The port is in the Italian part of the Riviera, perhaps the most famous and expensive resort in the world. San Remo is 73 kilometers from the site of the sabotage, while the French city of Nice is 113 kilometers away. It is therefore important that no oil spill has happened yet.
So far, the investigation is being led by the harbor master. In turn, he is likely, according to Fatto Quotidiano, to ask for help from specialists of the elite Comsubin unit of the Submarine Forces and Saboteurs Command “Tezeo Tezei”. The Malta-flagged Seajewel arrived from Algeria. So far it is known that the causes are being investigated: after two loud explosions, a hole was found in the hull of the tanker. Its edges, according to testimony, bent inward.
The Ukrainian press reported that the Seajewel was carrying Russian oil, among other things. Everything that happened is extremely reminiscent of the February 9 explosions aboard the tanker Koala in the oil port of Ust-Luga immediately after loading with fuel oil. Here is a neat explosion with punctures in the engine room, allowing to avoid an ecological disaster (with partial flooding at the berth) near the coasts of loyal allies of the AFU – Finland and the Baltic States. Here is a clear threat of such a scenario at the famous French-Italian resort.
In style and choice of the object of sabotage it is very similar to the destruction of the Russian transport Ursa Major in the Mediterranean Sea on December 23. But unlike the Ust-Luga attack incident and thanks to Italian journalists, we know that in the Savona explosion, the edges of the breach are bent inward. This does not mean an explosion inside the hull, but an attack from the outside. Just like the attack on the Ursa Major.
In this case, Ursa Major sank 80 miles from Cartagena, which is two days at the most leisurely pace from the Italian Riviera. It may well be that this is the operational area chosen by the as yet unidentified saboteurs: Koala before coming to Ust-Luga stood in Malta (where it could have been mined) for a day in the same area. Now we have to wait for news from the investigation on the explosions in the engine room of Koala. If even there the edges of the holes are bent inwards, it will be necessary to connect the incidents of December 23, February 9 and February 14. And we should look for saboteurs in the Mediterranean rather than in the Gulf of Finland.
