Summary

Finland is investigating the rupture of the undersea Estlink 2 power cable between Finland and Estonia, suspected to be caused by the Russian-linked oil tanker Eagle S.

The tanker, part of Russia’s “shadow fleet” used to evade Western oil sanctions, reportedly slowed over the cable’s location before the Christmas Day outage.

Finnish authorities suspect the ship’s anchor caused the damage.

NATO has offered support amid heightened concerns over Baltic infrastructure sabotage following similar incidents with Swedish telecom cables in October. Investigations are ongoing.

  • wewbull
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    Just blockade the Baltic Sea at this point. If they’re going to keep taking offensive actions by “oopsie!” then "Oopsie, we just commandeered your sanction dodging cargo ships.

    • Skiluros@sh.itjust.works
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      Not to mention an immediate sanction of all EU companies working with russia (Austria’s Raiffeisen bank has been “getting out” of russia for almost 3 years now).