Did a Russian ‘shadow ship’ cut the Finland-Estonia undersea Baltic cable?
Al Jazeera
Finnish authorities board a ship in the Baltic Sea that the West suspects is linked to Russia, a day after an underwater electricity cable was cut and other telecom cables snapped.
Finnish authorities seized a Russia-linked ship in the Baltic Sea on Thursday, on suspicion that it damaged an undersea power cable between Finland and Estonia a day earlier.
The incident has intensified fears in Europe over a Russian hybrid war targeting critical infrastructure in the Baltic and beyond.
Finnish police said in a statement that the coastguard crew boarded an oil tanker in Finnish waters early on Thursday.
Authorities named the vessel as the Eagle S, and said it was registered in the Cook Islands in the South Pacific.
When it was detained, the ship was sailing from Russia’s Saint Petersburg to Port Said in Egypt, according to online marine tracking website, MarineTraffic.
