Latvian police have found no evidence linking a ship docked in the port of Liepaja to damage to an underwater telecoms cable running in the Baltic Sea from Latvia to Lithuania, but
Latvian police have found no evidence linking a ship docked in the port of Liepaja to damage to an underwater telecoms cable running in the Baltic Sea from Latvia to Lithuania, but are investigating the incident further, authorities said on Monday.
The Baltic Sea region is on high alert after a string of power cable, telecom link and gas pipeline outages since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, and the NATO military alliance has boosted its presence with frigates, aircraft and naval drones.
The latest outage, of a cable belonging to Swedish fibre optics group Arelion, occurred on Friday near Liepaja. Investigators said on Sunday they had boarded a ship and initiated criminal proceedings, but did not name the vessel.
INSPECTED SHIP AND ANCHOR
The incident came four days after Finnish police seized a vessel en route from Russia to Israel on suspicion of sabotaging an Elisa telecoms cable running across the Gulf of Finland to Estonia by dragging its anchor.
Arelion, owner of the Latvia-Lithuania fibre link, said on Monday one of its cables linking Finland and Estonia was also damaged on December 31, confirming earlier reports, and that a cable from Estonia to Sweden stopped working on
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