Russian Coast Guard officers in camouflage outfits and wearing balaclavas, approach the port side of the MY Arctic Sunrise at high speed in an inflatable. One of them attempts to board the Greenpeace vessel by throwing a grappling hook over the railing.
Disproportionate use of force was used by the Russian authorities following an attempt by five Greenpeace International activists to climb the ‘Prirazlomnaya’, an oil platform operated by Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom in Russia’s Pechora Sea. The activists are there to stop it from becoming the first to produce oil from the ice-filled waters of the Arctic.