Broken cables in the Baltic and Moscow's ghost fleet: the president of Finland calls to “eliminate the risks” – 12/26/2024 at 1:54 p.m.

A new suspicious incident has occurred between Finland and Estonia, a little over a month after the rupture of two telecommunications cables in Swedish territorial waters.

Finnish President Alexander Stubb called on Thursday, December 26 on .

This incident comes a little more than a month after the rupture of two telecommunications cables in Swedish territorial waters in the Baltic Sea.

On Christmas Day, the EstLink 2 direct current link between Finland and Estonia was disconnected from the network, Finnish operator Fingrid announced.

“The risks posed by Russian ghost fleet ships must be eliminated”

Questioned by the Finnish media Yle, Arto Pahkin, head of operations at Fingrid, estimated that “the possibility of sabotage could not be excluded”. An investigation into the incident was immediately launched. The disturbance was localized on Thursday, according to Fingrid.

The Finns' electricity supply was not affected.

“We followed the situation closely yesterday” with Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo, the Finnish president said on X.

“The risks posed by Russian ghost fleet ships must be eliminated,” he added.

This incident comes a little more than a month after the rupture of two telecommunications cables in Swedish territorial waters in the Baltic Sea.

Suspicion quickly focused on a Chinese-flagged ship, the Yi Peng 3, which was in this area at the time of the incident according to ship tracking websites.