Phantom Warships Are Courting Chaos in Conflict Zones

Interesting, and worrisome when you add in the datum points of Russian defense forces possibly responding ghost intrusions with live ammunition.
My inner propagandist can't help but think how imagery of shots being fired and nominal third-party confirmation of the incursion by means of AIS tracking could inspire NATO hesitation during an incident.

Cool!! Especially if this will give Vlad and Xl some nightmares.

There is a possibility that this is a bug in the AIS simulator software where it is accidentally feeding simulated information into production systems.