The armed men, believed to be Russian border guards, boarded the Arctic Sunrise icebreaker in international waters, Greenpeace said in a statement, adding that all 25 crew members had been forced into the mess hall at gunpoint and locked there.
Before Greenpeace reported that the Arctic Sunrise crew had been locked in the mess hall, the people aboard the ship had been posting to its Twitter account. The last message there, a few hours before the Greenpeace statement, claimed that most of the crew was kneeling at gunpoint on the main deck as armed men searched the ship and tried to break down the barricaded door of the press room.
Sloppy on the part of the Russians. All cell/radio communication should have been jammed prior to making themselves known.
Wait. Why does Greenpeace need an icebreaker? I thought all the icecap had melted.
BWAHAHAHA!!!
The article says they scaled a Gazprom oil rig to protest drilling in the Artic. The Russians were reacting to that. They’re lucky they weren’t sunk.