Latvian police have boarded a vessel after a telecommunications cable in the Baltic Sea was damaged. The police said in a statement on Sunday, according to the Reuters news agency.
It is not clear what caused the damaged telecommunications cable. The police only said that it boarded the vessel in connection with the incident.
- Currently, neither the vessel nor the crew have been arrested, they are cooperating with the police, and work is underway to clarify the circumstances, the police wrote on X.
The cable was damaged on January 2 near the coastal city of Liepaja. The ship, which Latvian authorities have boarded, is currently docked at the port of the coastal city.
Latvian Prime Minister Evika Silina has also mentioned the incident on X, but does not report any major consequences in the country.
- The incident has not affected Latvian communications customers, she writes.
There have been several incidents in the Baltic Sea in recent years, where energy and communications infrastructure have been destroyed.
Most recently, a ship sailing from St. Petersburg was connected to a cable that was damaged on December 31 between Finland and Estonia.
Following the many incidents with ruptures of cables on the seabed, the NATO operation "Baltic Sentry" was launched in January last year. As part of "Baltic Sentry," ships, planes and drones are monitoring the Baltic Sea to counter cable breaches, which have previously been linked to Russia's so-called shadow fleet.
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