Jonas Sjöstedt, a Swedish Left Party (V) EU parliamentarian, was in a rubber boat taking part in a Greenpeace demonstration in the Baltic Sea against the Russian shadow fleet oil tanker 'Kira K', suspected of violating environmental regulations and evading Swedish Coast Guard interdiction. During the protest outside Germany, a Russian warship escorting the oil tanker approached the demonstrators at high speed without responding to communication from the German Coast Guard, causing Sjöstedt to feel shaken. The German Coast Guard subsequently asked the activists to leave the area to avoid confrontation.

Jonas Sjöstedt, a Swedish Left Party (V) EU parliamentarian, was in a rubber boat taking part in a Greenpeace demonstration in the Baltic Sea against the Russian shadow fleet oil tanker 'Kira K', suspected of violating environmental regulations and evading Swedish Coast Guard interdiction. During the protest outside Germany, a Russian warship escorting the oil tanker approached the demonstrators at high speed without responding to communication from the German Coast Guard, causing Sjöstedt to feel shaken. The German Coast Guard subsequently asked the activists to leave the area to avoid confrontation.