Estonia believes that damage to a telecommunications cable in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Estonia is related to damage to a pipeline and cable between Estonia and Finland, Sweden's government said on Monday.
Estonian Navy conducts an undersea communications cable survey after a subsea gas pipeline and a telecommunications cable connecting Finland and Estonia under the Baltic Sea was damaged, in the Gulf of Finland, October 10, 2023. Estonian Navy Handout/Handout via REUTERS/File Photoin the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Estonia is related to damage to a pipeline and cable between Estonia and Finland, Sweden's government said on Monday.
Bohlin added that Estonia had assessed that "the damage to the gas pipeline and communications cable between Finland and Estonia is related to the damage to the communications cable between Sweden and Estonia".Estonia said it was too early to draw any conclusions, though it had established that the damage to the Finland-Estonia links had been caused by human actions.
"If we establish through procedural actions that the damage to the communication cable between Estonia and Sweden is also caused by human actions, we will expand the ongoing criminal proceedings to find out these circumstances as well," Estonian State prosecutor Triinu Olev said. NATO has said it is stepping up patrols in the Baltic Sea following the incidents, which have stoked concerns about the security of energy supplies in the wider Nordic region.Finnish investigators have said the damage detected this month may have been an act of sabotage, though they have yet to conclude whether it was an accident or a deliberate act.
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