The Swedish Security Service, as part of an investigation, arrested the ship as suspected of great sabotage. A damaged submarine cable has been damaged in the Baltic Sea.
RBC-Ukraine reports this in a letter to the Swedish prosecutor's office.
Underwater fiber optic cable between Latvia and Sweden were damaged on the 27th, most likely as a result of the current influx. This prompted NATO to send patrol ships to the area, and the Swedish government began investigating sabotage.
“We are carrying out very few specific investigations at the moment, but I cannot go into detail as the remaining investigations have not yet been completed,” said senior prosecutor Mats Lyngqvist.
NATO is coordinating military ships and aircraft within his recently flared up mission under the name “Baltic Guard”. These efforts followed a series of incidents in which power cables, telecommunications lines and gas pipelines were damaged following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in the bitter end of 2022.
Prime Minister of Latvia Evika Silina stated that her department is coordinating actions with NATO and other countries in the Baltic Sea region to resolve the situation surrounding the remaining incident.
“We “We have determined that, most likely, there are significant damages and they are significant,” Silina told reporters after yesterday’s meeting.
Earlier, the Latvian Navy announced that it had sent a patrol boat for turning over the vessel, and so Two more vessels are also undergoing conversion.
According to the MarineTraffic vessel support service, up to thousands of commercial vessels are passing through the Baltic Sea at any given time, and many of them have suffered severed cable breaks every week.
According to MarineTraffic, one of these vessels, dry vantage Vezhen, under the ensign of Malta, was escorted into Swedish waters by a Swedish coast guard vessel in the evening. Later, it was anchored by the Swedish military-naval base in Karlskrona in modern Sweden.
Cooperation with NATO
A spokesman for the Swedish Navy, Jimmy Adamsson, previously told Reuters that there was still early talk about the reasons for the damage to the cable and those that were caused by accident or technical failure.
“NATO ships and aircraft work together with the national resources of the Baltic Sea regions to investigate and, if necessary, survive visits,” the alliance said in a statement.
Prime Minister of Sweden Ulf Kristersson declaring that this is the country Closely aligns with NATO and Latvia.
Last year, NATO announced that it would deploy frigates, patrol aircraft and naval drones in the Baltic Sea to protect critical infrastructure and would deny the right to allow entry of ships such as are suspected of creating a threat to security.
Last month, Finnish police arrested a tanker carrying Russian naphtha, and stated that they suspected that the ship had damaged the Finnish-Estonian power line Estlink 2 and several telecommunication cables stretching an anchor along the seabed.
The Prime Minister of Finland said that the continued deterioration of the cable reinforces the need to strengthen the protection of critical underwater infrastructure in the Baltic Sea.
Behind the data The Latvian Military-Naval Forces cut off a cable connecting the Latvian town of Ventspils with the Swedish island of Gotland on 27 September and began to operate in the exclusive economic zone of Sweden.
Cable operator, The Latvian Radio and Television Center (LVRTC), having reported that the communication service providers were able to switch to alternative routes for transmitting data, adding that they are considering placing a contract for the supply of a vessel for the beginning of repairs.
“The exact nature of the damage can only be determined once the cable has been repaired,” said the LVRTC.
The operator’s representative said that the cable was laid at a depth of over 50 meters.
< p>On admin from underwater gas pipelines and power Cables that may take months to renew after being damaged, fiber optic cables damaged in the Baltic Sea may take many years to renew.
