Finland's coast guard has boarded and seized a Cook Islands-flagged vessel, the Eagle S, suspected of damaging the Estlink 2 power transmission cable between Finland and Estonia, along with four undersea internet cables. The ship is thought to be part of Russia's "shadow tanker" fleet of sanction-evading oil tankers.
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00:00Finland says it has seized an oil tanker it believes was responsible for damaging undersea
00:06power and communication cables on Wednesday.
00:10Coast Guard officers boarded and sailed the vessel to Finnish waters for further investigation.
00:16The ship is believed to be part of Russia's shadow fleet of aging tankers that seek to
00:21evade sanctions on Russian oil.
00:24The incident comes after a Chinese vessel was suspected of cutting two undersea cables
00:29in Swedish territorial waters in November.