Swedish prosecutors announced Sunday night that they have opened a preliminary investigation into suspected aggravated “sabotage” and ordered the detention of a vessel in the Baltic Sea suspected of damaging an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland
Just start sinking them.
I hope the ships are going to be towed outside the environment first.
Siphon off the oil first.
Didn’t something similar happen just a couple months ago?
This is around the fifth in a year or something. Last one was the Eagle S on Dec 25th
Imagine that, acts of war being carried out by the 2 least trustworthy countries to ever have existed.
I am shocked. SHOCKED!
Some background about the preliminary suspect, m/s “Vezhen”.
- not an old hulk, but a relatively new ship
- registered on Malta
- operated by a company in Bulgaria
- owned by a company in China
Additional source (Reuters): Sweden opens sabotage probe into Baltic undersea cable damage
A source about how the ship maneuvered near the cable.
P.S. A secondary suspect has been identified. “Pskov” (name implies that it’s a Russian ship) had its transponder off while crossing the cable.
https://bsky.app/profile/pekka.bsky.social/post/3lgo6wiwt222j
P.P.S.
The primary suspect was the right one: Vezhen has damage to its anchor. Swedish authorities have boarded it.
Finnish “Yleisradio” reports here that the owner company admits causing the damage: “anchor fell down in harsh conditions”.
The “harsh conditions” here in Estonia, about 300 km from the scene, include a wind speed of 1.2 meters per second. :) On an image from the scene, courtesy of YLE, the sea is flat like a glass table. That’s some harsh conditions…
Even if the conditions were harsh, the anchor shouldn’t fall on its own. That far offshore it would’ve been secured.