Finland Says Vessel Suspected of Cutting Cable May Be Part of Russia’s ‘Shadow Fleet’
The Finnish authorities said the tanker might be part of Russia’s shadow fleet, which emerged as a way to circumvent Western-imposed price caps on Russian oil transported by sea. The caps were introduced several months after President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Finland seizes tanker carrying Russian oil suspected of knocking out internet, power cables
Finnish authorities on Thursday seized a ship carrying Russian oil in the Baltic Sea on suspicion it caused the outage of an undersea power cable connecting Finland and Estonia a day earlier, and that it also damaged or broke four internet lines.
A SHIP linked to Russia has been detained by authorities in Finland after another deep sea cable was damaged in the Baltic ...
A member of Russia’s so-called shadow fleet is suspected of damaging an undersea cable. Estonia launched a naval operation to ...
The most-recent incident has raised fears of sabotage after two data cables, one running between Finland and Germany, the ...
The Eagle S Panamax oil tanker crossed the Estlink 2 electricity cable ... to investigate damage caused last year to the ...
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