Finland discovers anchor ‘dragging track’ amid suspicions of Russian subsea sabotage

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00:00Finland accuses tanker crew of aggravated criminal mischief after power and internet

00:04cables were severed.

00:06The details from VOA's Henry Ridgewell.

00:11A tanker carrying Russian oil is being held off Finland's coast as authorities investigate

00:17damage caused to power and internet cables last week in the Baltic Sea.

00:22Finnish police said Sunday they had discovered a dragging track dozens of kilometres long

00:28on the sea floor, apparently caused by an anchor.

00:31Four cables have been broken.

00:36We were able to get the situation under control and locate the ship in question, bring it

00:43to Finnish waters and begin a criminal proceeding.

00:50Finnish authorities suspect the Cook Islands registered Eagle S is part of Russia's so-called

00:57Shadow Fleet of aging vessels used to evade Western sanctions on its oil exports, imposed

01:04in the wake of Moscow's 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

01:09The Kremlin has not directly responded to accusations of sabotage.

01:14The damage to the S-Link 2 power cable and three telecom lines is just the latest in

01:20a series of similar incidents in the Baltic Sea.

01:24In November, a Chinese vessel was suspected of severing two fibre-optic data cables in

01:30Swedish waters.

01:32Last year, the Baltic Connector gas pipeline linking Estonia and Finland was damaged.

01:38Ten months later, China said a Hong Kong-registered vessel had caused the damage in a storm, but

01:44Finland was sceptical of the admission.

01:47Estonia is calling for maritime laws to be updated.

01:51It can't be by accident.

01:54These kind of situations are not typical not only for our region, but also for other regions

02:01in the world.

02:02So the technological developments that we have, we think that it is a good idea to look

02:10over also the international law to make these investigations more smoothly.

02:16NATO said Friday it would boost its presence in the Baltic Sea.

02:21The alliance recently staged maritime drills in the region, but responding to apparent

02:26hybrid attacks, such as the targeting of undersea cables, is complex, says analyst Charly Salonius-Pasternak.

02:35If you attribute it or you blame someone, will you kind of intensify the circle and

02:42what are you going to do about it, because you clearly cannot use the same retributionary

02:47tools as it were against Russia and China, at least not yet, I think.

02:52Authorities say it could take until August to repair the damage to the Estlink-2 cable.

02:58Henry Ridgewell, VOA News.

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