Nato to boost Baltic Sea presence after suspected sabotage of underwater cable
Published on December 30, 2024
Nato is to increase its military presence in the Baltic Sea, the alliance has announced, after the suspected sabotage of an underwater power cable running between Finland and Estonia.
The Estlink 2 submarine cable was disconnected from the grid on Christmas Day, little more than a month after two telecommunications cables were severed in Swedish territorial waters in the Baltic Sea.
Finnish authorities seized a ship on Thursday, citing suspicions that the vessel had engaged in “sabotage” to cause the Estlink 2 outage. The Eagle S, which flies under the flag of the Cook Islands in the South Pacific, was en route to Port Said in Egypt.