Investigators find suspicious marks after failures in an undersea cable in the Baltic

HELSINKI December 30 (DPA/EP) –

Finnish investigators have found suspicious drag marks in the area where EstLink2 is located, an underwater electricity cable that connects Finland with Estonia and which failed on December 25, so sabotage remains one of the main hypotheses that they are shuffled.

“The trail extends several dozen kilometers,” explained one of those responsible for the investigations, Sami Paila. The authorities are trying to determine if the freighter ‘Eagle S.’, intercepted after the incident, dragged its anchor to damage the aforementioned cable, which connects Finland with Estonia.

It is not the first incident of this type that has been recorded in the area and concern is growing about the security risks that the so-called Russian ‘ghost fleet’ may pose, a series of cargo ships now used by Russia to avoid international sanctions on its main sources of income. The ‘Eagle S’, flying the Cook Islands flag, was supposedly transporting gasoline from Russia to Egypt.

The High Representative for Foreign Policy of the EU, Kaja Kallas, has promised that the Twenty-seven will adopt “stronger actions” to reduce the “risks” involved in these types of ships. “The Russian ghost fleet threatens the environment and finances Russia’s war budget,” Kallas warned in an interview with the German newspaper ‘Die Welt’.

In this sense, the former Estonian prime minister has pointed out that the latest “sabotages” are not “isolated incidents”, but are part of “a weakened pattern” that aims to “cause damage to the digital and energy infrastructure” of all the continent.