2023-10-20 18:37:50
By Nicolas Barotte
Published 11 minutes ago, Updated 11 minutes ago
A Finnish Border Guard ship patrols the sea on October 11, 2023, near where the BalticConnector gas pipeline was damaged. STRINGER/AFP
The Balticconnector gas pipeline and the Elisa communications cable, which connect Finland and Estonia, were damaged by “external action”.
The Svermorput and Newnew Polarbear are currently in the Barents Sea, north of Norway and Finland. The Russian cargo ship is on its way to Vostochny, near Vladivostok, the Hong Kong-flagged container ship is heading towards Tianjin. Both stopped at St. Petersburg on October 8 after spawning in the Gulf of Finland. Finnish and Estonian police have launched a joint investigation into them after the incident which damaged the Balticconnector gas pipeline and the Elisa telecommunications cable. A little more than a year after the – unsolved – attack which hit the Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea, the event is causing concern among the allies.
The gas pipeline linking Finland and Estonia had to be closed on October 8 after being damaged by a «action externe», according to the authorities of the two countries. On Friday, Finnish investigators ruled out that an explosion had damaged the Balticconnector. But an object “extremely heavy” a…
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