Finland has detained a ship after a critical undersea telecommunication cable running between the country and Estonia was damaged Wednesday, Finnish authorities said. Finnish police said in a statement that the vessel suspected of causing the damage was found with its anchor chain lowered into the sea in Finland’s waters, while the damage site itself … Read more
Swedish police have been investigating the suspected sabotage of an undersea telecoms cable in the Baltic Sea, connecting Germany and Finland. A series of undersea cables and gas pipelines have been damaged in suspected attacks since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, prompting Nato to launch a monitoring mission in the sea last month. The … Read more
The authorities in Norway have seized a Russian-crewed ship that is suspected of damaging an undersea cable in an act of sabotage in the Baltic Sea, the Norwegian police said on Friday. They were acting on a request from the Latvian authorities and on an order issued in Norwegian courts, the police said in a … Read more