Finnish investigators into suspected sabotage find 100km trail on Baltic Sea bed Electricity cable link to Estonia was damaged on Christmas Day in suspected Russian act of sabotage.
Finnish investigators say they have found a seabed trail stretching almost 100km (about 60 miles) around the site of an underwater electricity cable that was damaged on Christmas Day in a suspected act of Russian sabotage.
The ship under suspicion of causing the damage, a vessel called the Eagle S flying the flag of the Cook Islands, is believed to be part of Russia’s so-called shadow fleet, used for transporting Russian oil products subject to embargos after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
The apparent act of sabotage damaged the Estlink 2 electricity cable connecting Finland and Estonia.
“Our current understanding is that the drag mark in question is that of the anchor of the Eagle S,” the police chief investigator, Sami Paila, said on Sunday.
