NATO said it will boost its presence in the Baltic Sea after the suspected sabotage this week of an undersea power cable and four internet lines, while alliance member Estonia launched a naval operation to guard a parallel electricity link.
Finland yesterday seized a ship carrying Russian oil on suspicion the vessel caused an outage of the Estlink 2 undersea power cable linking it with Estonia and fibre optic lines, and today said it had asked NATO for support.
Baltic Sea nations are on high alert for acts of sabotage after a string of outages of power cables, telecom links and gas pipelines since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, although subsea equipment is…