Saboteurs Suspected of Cutting Yet Another Baltic Sea Cable as Three Ex-Soviet Republics Move To Join Europe’s Electricity Grid
The attacks come as Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania prepare to cut on February 8 their electricity links to Russia and Belarus.
Two weeks before the Baltic’s three former Soviet republics are to cut their Stalin-era electricity ties to Moscow, a ship damaged yesterday an undersea fiber optic cable between Latvia and Sweden. Swedish prosecutors immediately detained the ship near Sweden’s largest naval base, Karlskrona, and opened a sabotage investigation.
A Bulgarian company owns the Maltese-flagged ship, the Vezhen. The head of the owner company, Captain Aleksandar Kalchev, told Reuters today the Vezhen might have struck the Baltic undersea cable when it dropped anchor yesterday in high winds. He said the crew was initially held at gunpoint.
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