Finnish police intend to move the Eagle S, a Russia-linked tanker the authorities seized after suspecting it of deliberately damaging a Baltic Sea energy cable, to shore.
The tanker is to be moved from the Gulf of Finland to an anchorage close to the Finnish port of Kilpilahti to facilitate the investigation, the police stated in a press release on Saturday.
A one-nautical-mile exclusion zone is being arrange across the tanker “to make sure operational security of the authorities.” The assertion added {that a} no-fly zone is presently in impact.
The ship was stopped after the undersea energy cable Estlink2 between Finland and Estonia failed on December 25. Investigators are wanting into the potential for sabotage.
The ship sails below the flag of the Cook dinner Islands within the South Pacific. Based on the EU, the vessel is a part of the Russian “shadow fleet” – tankers and different cargo ships that Russia makes use of to bypass worldwide sanctions by transporting oil, for instance.
Issues have additionally been recognized with a number of communication cables within the Baltic Sea in current weeks.
