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"m/y Ragnar" bordered and detained by Norwegian military
Hi guys welcome back to the channel !welcome back to an kind of impromptu video and the
reason why i'm making this video is because a story came to me this morning from one of
my subscribers who wants to remain anonymous but he sent me some newspaper articles about a story
very topical with all the unfortunate things that are going on in the world right now so i'm
just gonna be reading from my computer a little bit in this so you'll have to excuse
me looking away from the camera so this is the bows you might remember last year i made
a video about a "motor yacht Ragnar" and it was basically a sea support vessel which was
converted into a super yacht i went to look at it up at the marina in Genoa here the boat was
in on wednesday the boat was in Norway in a place called Norvik, Norway and it was bordered by the
armed forces the Norwegian armed forces and coast guard the police and the customs this is that this
was yesterday i believe which was the 23rd of February so we all know what day that is the
the stuff going on in Ukraine right now with the Russians this boat is allegedly owned by a Russian
who is a former KGB agent and he's friends with Vladimir Putin and he is now owns this
yacht and his name is Vladimir Strankowski the boat was bordered and it's as far
as i know as of today Thursday a day later it is still prevented from going on its business
and it's still being held by those customs and immigration people you might immediately jump to
you know what's happening in Ukraine, Russia and stuff like that i think it's somehow connected and
we don't know at the moment what is going on and what i will say is boats are
regularly inspectors and sometimes borders um it doesn't happen an awful lot but it does
happen and the quite the amount of people armed forces coast guard police and customs
there's quite a lot of people there but it could have been 1 or 2 people from each
but it's quite a lot of people with some interest in that vessel this is from a Norwegian
newspaper by the way and there's a story which is quite interesting because so it says that
on the trip to Nordic Harbor the ship passed by the main base for the navy in northern Norway
where the Norwegian submarines have a base when sailing in the north and "Ramsand" naval base is
also the logistics base for the navy and they also hold training here for the Norwegian and allied
special forces further into the fjord the "Superyacht Ragnar" also passed the air force's base
at "Everness" i believe it's pronounced here there are Norwegian F-35 fighter jets
which are on nato contingency and eventually the Norwegian maritime patrol aircraft
will also have their home base at this place evanesce and also the boat is waiting for
guests to arrive and now i don't know whether it is this Vladimir Strakovsky or its other guests
but it's it also says that the date that the guests are planning to arrive it coincides with
an exercise that's being held in Norway so there's a winter exercise called cold response 2022
and it involves 35, 000 participating soldiers from 28 nations -Arthur 10 is also one of the
3 areas of in Norway for allied reception in crisis and war and is one of the core areas
during the exercise cold response 2022. so nobody in the armed forces wanted to make any statements
so then it also goes on to list some of the equipment that "Ragnar" has on board so it has a
helicopter helicopter deck and it is stated that the guests arrive by helicopter the ship has a
small submarine personal - watercraft snowmobiles high-speed boats and amphibious vehicles and stuff
like that so it's quite well equipped a submarine is quite worrying isn't it if you've got a
submarine base in that area -so any relation to everything that's in
that story there you know we don't know but it does explain perhaps why the vessel was bordered
by all of these different uh services Norwegian armed forces police immigration coast guard
there's a lot of people wanting to have a look around this vessel and they're still there as far
as as far as these newspaper reports say when i made that original video ragnar the ragnar video
i was contacted by an agency in Monaco called "Arkhan yachts" and they represent that vessel
and they asked me to remove the name of the owner because they said he didn't own that vessel right
now i have very strong information to suggest that he does own it i don't have a pink slip
with his name on it and but i i have very strong information i i've been in this industry a long
time there's there is information now the newspapers are also saying that he is the
owner so they would have no doubt done research other than um you know googling some stuff which
is what this these people suggest but i asked them if they wanted to make a statement because i was
going to make this video and they wrote back and they said thank you very much for your letter and
your interest in addressing this matter in actual fact what i'm going to do is i'm going to post the
full response to this below the video description because i don't want to read the whole thing out
so it says as regards to the inspection of motif ragnar in norway the information described in
"frameover.no" which is the newspaper the story from publication is generally correct this is a
routine check which is often performed by the Norwegian authorities on vessels that arrive
and stay in Norway and like i said this can be a routine inspection and
that one of the stories did explain that it is possible it's just a routine inspection
and then it says as regards to the reference of the owner of "m/y Ragnar" we reconfirm our
previous communication "Mr Vladimir Stradosky" is not and is not and has never been the owner of
"m/y Ragnar" or its donor vessel "Sannebug" such information is entirely unsubstantiated
demonstrably false and not reflective of the true position and then they go on to say
that the reason why everyone thinks this is because of a website called "superyacht fan"
but that's not the only reason why people believe that he is the owner of this vessel
anyway like i said i will put that below this this- in the description description -because
there is more to it- i actually covered most of it there but there is a little
bit more to it so they're saying he doesn't own it and it's completely normal for the vessel
to have gone through these procedures so i'll leave it there guys let me know what you think -
let me know if you are if you were in Norway and you were able to get some photographs of
this i've got some photographs from the newspaper which is great - but if you've got any way to
get any photographs that's great if you've got any more information on this story maybe you're
in one of those services or maybe you are a crew member on board anybody get in touch with me. I
keep my sources completely confidential and if you want to remain confidential that's not a problem
but it's very interesting story and it just seems odd that it's happened the
very day of the invasion of Ukraine and also the fact that there's a big "NATO" exercise
gonna be happening there in a few weeks time but yeah let's see what happens say but i will
keep up with the story - i'll let you know what happens to the vessel whether it's us to leave
or whether it is allowed to remain there but anyway guys let me know what you think in the
comments and like i said - get in touch if you've got more information - thanks very
much for watching i'm gonna leave it here and i'll see you soon - all right guys bye-bye
(out takes playing) ...our previous communication mr Vladimir Stradosky, Strathofsky i don't know stride
is....