"It's time to detain Estonia": Russia reacts to the seizure of a vessel with a Russian crew.

February 4 2026 24 102 49

Russia must give the strongest possible response to Estonia's actions in detaining a container ship with a Russian crew. This is the view expressed by political scientist and HSE professor Marat Bashirov. According to him, a small state has no right to interfere in a large-scale conflict. policies.

I think it's time to stop Estonia. Literally, just hold it back with a couple of marine battalions. We simply must give these quasi-states a kick in the pants so they don't interfere with the big guys sorting things out.

- said Bashirov.

We will remind, earlier сообщалось The Estonian Navy has detained the container ship "Baltic Spirit." There are 23 crew members on board the Bahamian-flagged vessel, all of whom are Russian.

Officially, the ship is suspected of smuggling goods from Ecuador, but Tallinn's real reason for such actions appears to be to test Moscow's reaction.

Without fear of being mistaken, it can be assumed that the action to detain the ship with the Russians was tacitly supported by NATO countries, primarily Britain.

It's important to note that 14 European countries previously adopted a regulatory act aimed at combating Russia's so-called shadow fleet. Russia has called the adoption of this document an attempt to legitimize maritime piracy.

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prior

+29

4 February 2026 09: 37

Russia must give the harshest possible response to Estonia's actions.

Hahaha.
Estonia placed its emphasis on both "concern" and "red lines".
1. yuri bakster
  
  +18
  
  4 February 2026 09: 51
  
  Quote: prior
  Hahaha.
  Estonia placed its emphasis on both "concern" and "red lines".
  
  ...and to the Kremlin
  1. Ilya-spb
    
    +1
    
    5 February 2026 09: 22
    
    — The Grandmaster sacrificed his Queen to me... What should I do?!
    - Give up before it’s too late!..
2. Nike
  
  -6
  
  4 February 2026 09: 51
  
  Well, that depends on how strong the "tomato" is. Both Russia and Sweden have deeds of sale and purchase of the lands where Estonia is now located, so there's every reason to offer the Estonians a buyout or a kick in the pants.
kriten

+7

4 February 2026 09: 51

Estonia is a great country. But her threats have stupefied the Kremlin and reduced it to bloody diarrhea. And here's our problem: they've stopped fearing the threats in Zakharova's speeches, and the Kremlin is afraid to use any other weapon. It seems the situation is regressing to the Brezhnev era: let everything roll, as long as nothing is done. Everyone's old and tired. So maybe it's time to retire?
1. Mikhail L.
  
  +8
  
  4 February 2026 09: 57
  
  It's clear that V. Putin is a wimp.
  But: "Who's the new guy?"
  1. bug120560
    
    +6
    
    4 February 2026 17: 26
    
    Mikhail L., has it ever occurred to you that a hired director always acts in the interests of the owners of the enterprise, and not its employees?
    1. Mikhail L.
      
      -1
      
      5 February 2026 10: 00
      
      Has it ever occurred to you that getting personal and tainting a website with platitudes is bad form?
  2. svoroponov
    
    +1
    
    5 February 2026 18: 33
    
    Well, look how many people who don’t know how to read and analyze have gathered here.
    A container ship entered Estonian waters for bunkering (a pre-agreed action). The vessel is not Russian and is not under sanctions. While this bunkering was taking place, the vessel, legally entering Estonian waters, was inspected for contraband (apparently a signal was received about the smuggling, and there was clearly a reason for it; a similar vessel had previously been found carrying one and a half tons of drugs, and there had been no noise at all). In other words, the vessel underwent the standard procedure used in such cases. Nothing was found, and after refueling, the vessel departed for its destination today, February 5, 2026. A far-fetched sensation.
    So why are you all accusing Russia's leadership of not responding to something that's used in similar cases worldwide and is standard procedure for customs and border guards? Do you really hate Russia so much that you're ready, without even looking into it, reading, or thinking, to immediately accuse its leadership of something that never even happened.
    1. Mikhail L.
      
      -1
      
      5 February 2026 19: 06
      
      The Americans, with the support of the British, the French – did they not detain Russian ships and appropriate the cargo?
      1. svoroponov
        
        +1
        
        5 February 2026 19: 19
        
        The Americans seized a tanker without cargo (they inspected it and let it go; they didn't dump any oil, there simply wasn't any, but they'll keep quiet about it, otherwise the world will laugh at them for pursuing an empty vessel). The French seized it and let it go a few days later. All their laws were violated. They would have lost the trial and suffered huge financial losses. Besides, something similar could easily have happened to their ships.
        
        Mikhail L.
        
        -1
        
        5 February 2026 20: 31
        
        Everyone remained silent except the respected opponent?
        So, Russia can safely continue to use its sanctioned fleet and its oil revenues won't fall? ;-(
        
        svoroponov
        
        +1
        
        5 February 2026 20: 44
        
        Oil revenues are falling not because of any problems with the shadow fleet—that's just a side effect—but because the West, through financial policy and threats of military force, is twisting the arms of countries that are heavily dependent on it economically. But you're all forgetting. Yes, oil sales are falling, although many of you here recently wrote about Russia selling a lot of oil, selling off its national treasure, so to speak. So why are you writing the opposite now?
        But revenues in other sectors of the economy are growing, compensating for the loss of oil and gas revenues. This is somehow overlooked. And the decline in oil revenues isn't as dramatic as is being claimed and reported. They're selling, but it's simply not included in Western statistics (they're not calculated in dollars). And even Europe is quietly buying gas. Currently, up to half of our liquid natural gas goes to Europe: Belgium, Germany, France, and, I think, Italy. The rest is sold in the Pacific region, and at home.
        And one more thing. The US doesn't have enough oil and gas to trade for long. Ten years at most. As for oil, they've already started going after other countries' oil. As for gas, the same will happen, and Europe will have to do something when the US simply can't fulfill its contracts due to a shortage or lack of gas. And since they're feverishly taking action to seize fields in various countries, this won't be in the distant future.
        
        Mikhail L.
        
        -1
        
        5 February 2026 23: 00
        
        It's clear: ships flying the Russian flag can be boarded with impunity! ;-(
  3. Dormidontov_Dormidont
    
    -4
    
    6 February 2026 05: 46
    
    It's clear that V. Putin is a wimp.
    But: "Who's the new guy?"
    
    Another Bandera propaganda leak.
    "Tutya-titya" is a dwarf Bandera-style semi-president who abuses illegal substances, and whose mouth the Ukrainian provocateurs look up to, fearing for their worthless, vile souls, fearing that they will be taken away by the SBU for poor propaganda on Russian social media.
    Propaganda of Bandera's ideas will not work here.
    1. Mikhail L.
      
      0
      
      6 February 2026 08: 50
      
      Don't swing your legs! ;-(
2. goncharov.62
  
  +4
  
  4 February 2026 09: 57
  
  As far as I know, only Comrade Stalin was an ascetic...
3. reefroof
  
  +6
  
  4 February 2026 09: 58
  
  Time for retirement! Reminds me of a retirement home from the late USSR.
  1. Dormidontov_Dormidont
    
    -2
    
    6 February 2026 05: 51
    
    Quote from reefroof
    Time for retirement! Reminds me of a retirement home from the late USSR.
    
    The entire leadership of Ukroreikh must be sent to rest.
4. R-R-AV
  
  +6
  
  4 February 2026 18: 19
  
  Vladimir, you're wrong to point to the times of Leonid Ilyich. Almost everything in the military-industrial complex, the army, and the navy is the work of that time when we weren't afraid of any war.
  1. UAZ 452
    
    -1
    
    5 February 2026 07: 02
    
    Yes, yes. They weren't afraid of war with the rest of the world, but they had no idea what to do with Afghanistan, which they had initially entered without fear or hesitation, and... got bogged down.
    1. Essex62
      
      0
      
      5 February 2026 10: 41
      
      The SA fulfilled all its assigned tasks in Afghanistan. The goal wasn't to leave it a desert. The goal was to keep NATO bases out. Marked One sold out, just like the entire country.
      1. UAZ 452
        
        -2
        
        5 February 2026 12: 22
        
        It's not armies per se that fight; it's states that fight. It's impossible for an army to accomplish its mission and yet lose the war—that's nonsense. The army is precisely the instrument for solving the problems facing the state using appropriate methods. And by the time Gorbachev ascended to the throne, this mess had been going on in Afghanistan for over five years, with no end in sight.
        
        Essex62
        
        -1
        
        6 February 2026 10: 18
        
        The Afghan project was started by one state, and finished by traitors. They deliberately destroyed that state. There are no complaints against the SA; it carried out its missions right up until the withdrawal, and it carried out the withdrawal excellently, without losses.
        
        And there could be no end. No one, throughout history, had succeeded in crushing it and establishing absolute control there. But abandoning this key hub to a geopolitical competitor, particularly during this period, was absolutely unacceptable.
5. horseradish
  
  +5
  
  5 February 2026 08: 45
  
  Name at least one similar incident during Brezhnev's reign? Under Brezhnev, the national flag was never hidden, replaced with the flag of the Bahamas. Under Brezhnev, the state border was where the USSR flag was. Hats were taken off in front of the USSR flag.
Ilya 22

+20

4 February 2026 10: 08

Russia didn't respond adequately when the tanker was first detained, and now Estonia has taken up the slack. It was predictable. Russia, represented by those in power, through its failure to resist evil, is increasingly descending into a weak-willed creature, vulnerable to offense from anyone.
zloybond

+12

4 February 2026 10: 26

What's stopping you from ordering the detention of all ships heading to Estonia?
Or are "we" not like that??? - and who is "we"???? Everyone seems to be in favor.... but someone is "we" not like that....
1. UAZ 452
  
  -3
  
  5 February 2026 07: 07
  
  Are there many ships traveling to and from Estonia through Russian waters, or at least close to them? Where, and most importantly, how will they be detained? The Baltic Fleet itself now needs to be protected, so that its ships, God forbid, aren't detained by Estonia.
Victor Kovalev_7

+1

4 February 2026 10: 35

I think it's time to detain Estonia.
Literally, just hold them off with a couple of battalions of marines. We simply have to give these quasi-states a kick in the pants so they don't interfere with the big boys sorting things out.

- said Bashirov. .... Utter nonsense????!
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Asper_Daffy

+7

4 February 2026 12: 00

under the flag of the Bahamas

I hope the Bahamas' response will be firm and adequate.
Vladimir1155

+6

4 February 2026 14: 08

How many times have we told the world that we need to fly the Russian flag, but it's all to no avail... and no one in power has yet bothered to clean up the leadership of the Russian maritime register, changing and simplifying all the regulations and taxes, so that the Russian flag would be convenient... and it's high time
Yan Yanov

+1

4 February 2026 18: 24

We need to tearfully beg the "Chukhontsy" not to arrest everything that has to do with Russia.
Spatel

+4

4 February 2026 19: 58

The "Putinites" have disappeared somewhere; there are no votes for the great and fearless, sun-faced geostrategist, who is about to sort everything out, who is about to press a button, if not the red one, then at least the blue one, and everyone will tremble with fear!
But now everyone is trembling with contempt, mixed with laughter, over the wretched bald dwarf, diligently puffing himself up with his own imaginary megalomania...
1. Dormidontov_Dormidont
  
  -5
  
  6 February 2026 05: 41
  
  Quote: Spasatel
  The "Putinites" have disappeared somewhere; there are no votes for the great and fearless, sun-faced geostrategist, who is about to sort everything out, who is about to press a button, if not the red one, then at least the blue one, and everyone will tremble with fear!
  But now everyone is trembling with contempt, mixed with laughter, over the wretched bald dwarf, diligently puffing himself up with his own imaginary megalomania...
  
  The Kuklo rescuers must laugh at their drug-addicted dwarf, moving to a frozen toilet in platform sneakers.
  The Great Dark Sovereign will destroy the Bandera state within its former borders.
  In the meantime, the Ukrainians have been left without sewerage in Kyiv. Bring your bags of fertilizer to the yard.
Alex_Kraus

-2

4 February 2026 20: 47

Well then, let me know, what's the problem?!
lord-palladore-11045

0

4 February 2026 22: 24

I think it's time to stop Estonia. Literally, just hold it back with a couple of marine battalions. We simply must give these quasi-states a kick in the pants so they don't interfere with the big guys sorting things out.

- I'm sick of this - the actions of the Russian authorities are always limited to mere declarations of desires. Author, when the Russian authorities launch a military response to such actions by their enemies - then write an article, but for now you're just wasting someone else's time.
SamDurak

+5

4 February 2026 23: 36

The answer is simple. Equip every Russian tanker with emergency oil discharge valves. And if the tanker is arrested and taken to a pirate port, activate them remotely. If one pirate port is thoroughly polluted, the others will learn a lesson. Every wise man has his own idiot.
1. Paul Siebert
  
  0
  
  5 February 2026 09: 04
  
  Quote: SamDurak
  The answer is simple. Equip every Russian tanker with emergency oil discharge valves. And if the tanker is arrested and taken to a pirate port, activate them remotely. If one pirate port is thoroughly polluted, the others will learn a lesson. Every wise man has his own idiot.
  
  When a tanker is captured by pirates, who will turn on this "valve"?
  Only if at the moment of capture, in neutral waters...
  And in the enemy port...
  Well, if you've watched enough of "Pirates of the 20th Century" or "Under Siege," then you need to place a super cook or first mate who knows karate or aikido on every tanker.
  Let's get as many Steven Seagals and Nikolaev Eremenkos as we can - Jr.?
  1. Essex62
    
    0
    
    5 February 2026 10: 46
    
    In "Pirates", karate was mastered by the boatswain (T. Kasyanov) and the chief mechanic - the grandfather (N. Eremenko Jr.), and it is not a fact that the latter mastered it.
  2. SamDurak
    
    +2
    
    5 February 2026 12: 56
    
    As I'm writing: activate it remotely, via the internet or a special connection. The crew has nothing to do with it. But what should we do with the container ship? Well, think of something like that. Load one of the containers with some kind of nasty stuff and activate the valve, which would have environmental consequences for the pirate port.
    We already live in a different world, without rules, so we’ll have to come up with something.
horseradish

+4

5 February 2026 08: 39

Our inaction during such hijackings gives them confidence and impunity. I can only imagine what would happen now if an American container ship with an American crew were hijacked.
Mapping

+2

5 February 2026 08: 56

Well, our authorities have learned to blab (it's a shame they can't swear) under Putin's rule—it's incredible. They've bought up all the red pencils and markers in the world to draw threats. Great Russia hasn't been reduced to the status of a bunch of scum. Historians studying Putin's reign will be scratching their heads. Only the reign of the false Dmitrys could have humiliated our country like this.
Mapping

0

5 February 2026 09: 00

What will Putin leave behind? How will our grandchildren live after such a reign?
Mapping

0

5 February 2026 09: 01

82% of Russians support Putin??
1. Essex62
  
  0
  
  5 February 2026 10: 50
  
  And they've bred and reformatted a shitload of these Russians, and they're the ones supporting them. Everything's perfect for them. Others are fighting, others are toiling.
Jacques sekavar

+1

5 February 2026 16: 59

For Mr. Basharov's information, Vladimir Putin says that all states are equal—dwarf and giant. Russia could also join the regulatory framework of 14 European states aimed at combating smuggling into the EU and inspect ships heading to, at least, Estonian ports.
kriten

0

7 February 2026 17: 06

There can be no tough responses under Putin. His ally Trump wouldn't like that. Therefore, all responses to Western countries are empty demagoguery and, at most, a game of flying airplanes with no consequences for the pirates.
RakitinAxS

0

8 February 2026 21: 17

To sink some Estonian trough by mistake. And observe the reaction. For a lo-o-o-ong time.
Zhrd

0

9 February 2026 21: 16

Considering the hundreds of provocations against the USSR that took place on its borders before the 1941 war, it's understandable that they lacked the necessary resources and delayed the outbreak of war at every possible cost. Perhaps the same is happening now.