SpaceWar.com reports: “NATO will bolster its military presence in the Baltic Sea after the suspected sabotage of an undersea power cable linking Finland and Estonia this week, the Western military alliance’s chief Mark Rutte said on Friday.
On Christmas Day, the Estlink 2 submarine cable that carries electricity from Finland to Estonia was disconnected from the grid, just over a month after two telecommunications cables were severed in Swedish territorial waters in the Baltic.
Finnish authorities on Thursday said they were investigating the oil tanker, Eagle S, that sailed from a Russian port, as part of a probe for ‘aggravated sabotage’.
Finnish President Alexander Stubb said on Friday: ‘We’ve got the situation under control, and we have to continue to work together vigilantly to make sure that our critical infrastructure is not damaged by outsiders.’
Officials suspect the tanker is part of the Russian ‘shadow fleet’, which refers to ships that transport Russian crude and oil products embargoed due to Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine…”
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