Sweden explores the involvement of a vezhen ship in the weekend cable break. There were also two other platforms in the area, followed by Finland, Latvia and Estonia.
17: 11 • Updated 18:01
The video above shows how Vezhen, a freight ship sailing under the Malta flag, crossed the fiber optic cable connecting Sweden and Latvia on Sunday morning.
The cable was damaged at about 2:45 in Finnish time. According to the Marine Traffic service following shipping, Vezhen crossed the cable between 2: 42-3: 33.
It was due to continue to Skagen, Denmark.
The ship did not reach its destination. Currently, Vezhen is outside the Karlskrona harbor and is guarded by the Swedish Coast Guard boats.
Marine Traffic’s information shows how ships from several countries participated in tracking the suspect.
In addition to Sweden, the Finnish, Latvia and Estonian vessels followed, in addition to Vezhen, two other ships near the cable break.
Three NATO platforms were able to suspect a suspicious ship in the Gulf of Finland
The Estonian War Ship M314 went to follow a tanker called PSKOV on Sunday to afternoon.
The LNG tanker, who sailed under the Malta flag, was on his way from Algeria to Russia.
On Sunday evening, the Uusimaa 05 vessel of the Finnish Navy joined the Finnish Navy. It took about two hours alongside Pskov.
The map shows how the Estonian and Finnish ship may pass under the Malta flag in the Gulf of Finland.
Earlier on Saturday night, Pskov had sailed towards a LVRTC fiber cable connecting Sweden and Latvia.
The Marine Traffic site does not show information about Pskov’s location at times when it approached the location of the cable. The reason for this is not known.
The next time the venue information on the ship will be displayed on Sunday in the morning at four in the morning.
According to Marine Traffic, another Estonian ship was later joined by the Estonian ship, which went alongside Pskov in the Eastern Gulf of Finland until Monday morning.
The third vessel in the area of the cable break was followed by the Latvian Scouting Ship.
The Latvians checked Michalis Sans early on Sunday, but the authorities did not detect suspicious activity on board. The ship’s anchor was not damaged, the master of the Latvian Navy Māris Polecs told Sunday LVRT by.
Sweden, Latvia and NATO have opened an investigation into a cable offense in the Baltic Sea on Sunday.
The latest cable break is already the sixth pipe or cable damage in the Baltic Sea region in the last two years.
Vezhen owned company considers the cable break as a damage
Vezhen departed from Russia from Lakukansuu harbor on Friday. According to the company, the ship carried fertilizers to South America.
Bulgarian shipping company responsible for ship operations admitted On Monday, its ship dropped its anchor into the water during the hard sea.
The company considers it possible that the cable between Gotland and Latvia was damaged as a result of the anchor dragging.
The Swedish security authority Säpo suspects serious sabotage. The shipping company denies that damage to the Baltic Sea fiber optic cable would be due to intentional destruction.
Sweden is silent about the investigation. No one has been arrested so far.
According to the Bulgarian TV channel, the ship’s crew consists of eight Bulgarian citizens and nine Myanmar citizens.
Swedish media According to the Swedish authorities, the ship has seized the ship and risen to the ship.
CEO of the company’s shipping company Aleksandärt Kalchev commented on the Bulgarian According to the news sitethat armed representatives of the Swedish Coast Guard behave aggressively as they rise to the ship.