The cargo ship Vezhen is anchored exterior Karlskrona, Sweden, Monday, after a brand new cable break within the Baltic Sea. In response to monitoring websites, the Malta-registered ship Vezhen handed the world of the Latvian fiber cable that was broken within the Swedish financial zone off Gotland on Sunday. Norwegian police stated Friday they’d seized a Norwegian-owned ship at Latvia’s request over its suspected involvement in injury finished to a Baltic Sea cable. EPA-Yonhap
Norwegian police stated Friday they’d seized a Norwegian-owned ship at Latvia’s request over its suspected involvement in injury finished to a Baltic Sea cable, however the vessel’s proprietor rejected any wrongdoing.
Nations across the Baltic Sea have scrambled to bolster their defenses after the suspected sabotage of undersea cables in latest months, with some observers blaming Russia.
The Norway-flagged cargo ship, the „Silver Dania,“ was crusing between Saint Petersburg and Murmansk when Norwegian police stopped it on Thursday night off the coast of Tromso, in northern Norway.
„The ship is suspected to have been concerned in severe injury to a fiber cable within the Baltic Sea between Latvia and Sweden,“ police stated in an announcement.
„Police are actually on board the ship to go looking, perform interrogations and safe leads,“ it stated, including that the crew and shipowner had been cooperating with police.
„Your complete crew on board is Russian,“ police stated within the assertion.
The ship is owned by the Norwegian group Silver Sea.
The shipowner instructed AFP the vessel „did nothing mistaken.“
Sweden and Latvia introduced on January 26 {that a} fiber optic cable, owned by Latvia’s state radio and tv middle and linking the Swedish island of Gotland and Ventspils, Latvia, had been broken.
The Swedish coast guard seized a Bulgarian ship the identical day, the Malta-flagged „Vezhen,“ as Swedish prosecutors opened an „aggravated sabotage“ investigation. (AFP)
