OSLO (Reuters) – Finnish police mentioned on Sunday they’d found traces stretching dozens of kilometers on the backside of the Baltic Sea, the place a tanker carrying Russian oil is suspected of getting severed an influence line and 4 cables telecommunications with its anchor.
The Eagle S, registered within the Prepare dinner Islands, was boarded on Thursday by Finnish police and the coast guard and sailed into Finnish waters the place the crew of the seized tanker is being questioned.
Baltic Sea nations are on alert after a sequence of outages of energy cables, telecommunications hyperlinks and fuel pipelines since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. NATO introduced on Friday that it will strengthen its presence within the area.
A break within the 658 megawatt (MW) Estlink 2 energy cable between Finland and Estonia occurred at noon on Wednesday, leaving solely the 358 MW Estlink 1 cable connecting the 2 nations, community operators mentioned. They mentioned Estlink 2 might not return to service till August.
Finnish police suspect the Eagle S induced the harm by dragging its anchor on the seabed.
Investigators have recognized a “trailing path” however haven’t but discovered a lacking anchor, Sami Paila, tactical chief and chief inspector of Finland’s Nationwide Bureau of Investigation, mentioned in a press release.
“The path is dozens of kilometers lengthy,” Paila defined.
Pictures taken of the Eagle S on Friday confirmed the ship was lacking its port anchor.
Finnish customs believes the ship is a part of a “ghost fleet” of getting old tankers used to evade sanctions on Russian oil exports.
The Kremlin mentioned Friday that it was of little concern about Finland’s seizure of the ship.
Russia has denied any involvement in earlier incidents of injury to Baltic infrastructure.
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