"Finnish police on Wednesday seized a vessel suspected of damaging a telecommunications cable between Helsinki and Tallinn, Estonia. The vessel was spotted with its anchor lowered near the site in Estonia's exclusive economic zone where telecom provider Elisa detected a fault early Wednesday. A Finnish border guard vessel and helicopter located the ship and ordered it to stop, raise its anchor, and move into Finnish territorial waters."
""Finland is prepared for security challenges of various kinds, and we respond to them as necessary," President Alexander Stubb wrote on X. Undersea 'sabotage' has countries on high alert There was no immediate information about the ship's flag or its origin. Finnish police said they were investigating the incident as "aggravated criminal damage, attempted aggravated criminal damage, and aggravated interference with telecommunications.""
Finnish police seized a vessel suspected of damaging a telecommunications cable between Helsinki and Tallinn after Elisa detected a fault in Estonia's exclusive economic zone. The ship was observed with its anchor lowered near the site; a Finnish border guard vessel and helicopter ordered it to stop, raise its anchor, and move into Finnish territorial waters. President Alexander Stubb said Finland is prepared for security challenges and will respond as necessary. Police are investigating the incident as aggravated criminal damage, attempted aggravated criminal damage, and aggravated interference with telecommunications. A series of outages affecting undersea infrastructure has been linked to hybrid-war tactics attributed to Russia, prompting NATO to increase Baltic Sea patrols. There was no immediate information about the vessel's flag or origin.
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