The military alliance is increasing its presence due to pipeline and cable failures in the Baltic Sea.
Military alliance NATO says patrolling the Baltic Sea more than before after the pipe and cable breaks.
NATO and its members are increasing flights with sea and air surveillance aircraft and drones. In addition, NATO will send four mine countermeasures vessels to the Baltic Sea.
According to the Ministry of Defense of Finland, the measures are part of NATO’s normal operation, which is related to the situation after damage to underwater infrastructure.
– NATO is intensifying general vigilance in the Baltic Sea region. The measures do not mean that the military threat has increased, Minister of Defense Antti Häkkänen (collective) states according to the Ministry of Defense’s press release.
Finland’s Central Criminal Police is investigating the breakage of the Balticconnector natural gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia at the beginning of October as vandalism. Estonia, on the other hand, is investigating the break in the communication cable that happened almost at the same time.
In addition, a few days later, the communication cable running between Sweden and Estonia was damaged.