Finland boards Russian-linked oil tanker after undersea power and internet cables cut
- Finnish authorities seized a ship carrying Russian oil in the Baltic Sea due to suspicion of causing an outage of an undersea power cable connecting Finland and Estonia.
- The ship, Eagle S, is flagged in the Cook Islands and is part of Russia's shadow fleet of fuel tankers.
- Baltic Sea nations are on high alert for potential acts of sabotage following outages of power cables and telecom links since 2022.
- Damage to subsea installations in the Baltic Sea has become frequent, raising concerns about the actions of the Russian shadow fleet.
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A "tens of kilometres" long tow trail has been discovered on the bottom of the Baltic Sea following the ship Eagle S, according to Finnish police.
The operation to move the tanker Eagle S, suspected of damaging the EstLink2 submarine power cable, towards the port of Porvoo went according to plan, Finnish police reported.
The Eagle S ship, which came from Russia, is credited with the breakage of the electric cable linking Finland to Estonia, and damage to four other cables
Why the Kremlin is not concerned about the fate of our arrested tanker — lawyer's opinion: EADaily
EADaily, December 29th, 2024. The Eagle S tanker, which the Finns consider part of the Russian shadow fleet, was detained on December 26 on suspicion of involvement in damage to cables between Estonia and Finland. The situation Pravda.Ru Sergey Kubantsev, a specialist in international law…
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