Sweden says it has proof that a submarine was operating in its waters illegally, but has not identified which country was behind the intrusion in October.<br /><br />“The intelligence operation conducted in the Stockholm archipelago has used all of the available assets that we have in the Royal Navy. It is a different kind of census – on the surface and on the ground…We have a confirmation that there has been a smaller submarine in the archipelago,” Sverker Göransson, Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces announced.<br /><br />Prime Minister Stefan Löfven warned against any further incursions.<br /><br />“The Defense Forces have not been able to identify the nationality, but still, it is a very, very serious report when it is one of anybody having entered our territory illegally.”<br /><br />The incident triggered the country’s largest military mobilisation since the Cold War.<br /><br />With increasing tensions between Europe and Russia over the crisis in Ukraine, many pointed to a Kremlin vessel lurking beneath Swedish waters, though Moscow has denied any involvement in the incident.
