Norway acquires the Russian vessel suspected by cutting a cable below the sea

The Norwegian police said on Friday that the Norway authorities had seized a Russian arrogant ship suspected to destroy a cable below the sea in the sea in the Baltic Sea.

They were acting at the request of the Latvian authorities and on an order issued in the Norwegian courts, the police He said in a statementAfter the cable was damaged under the sea that runs between Sweden and Latvia this week.

This is the latest in an increasing number of damage or sabotage to the underneath of the sea in the Baltic Sea, including cables used to connect and distribute electricity. In response to one of this case in December, his NATO alliance Its patrols and the monitoring process rose In the Baltic Sea.

Anxiety about such damage has been rising since then A series of underlined explosions Nord Stream lines that connect Russia to Western Europe exploded in 2022.

On Thursday evening, the Norway Coast and Police Guard surrounded the Russian ships whispered by-Selver Dania, a ship owned and registered in Norway-and withdrew it to the Port of Tromsu on Friday morning, the police said.

The ship, a 36 -year -old cargo ship, According to shipping dataHe was sailing between Russian ports, Sant Petersburg and Murmansk. The police said that the officers had boarded the ship to search for evidence and interrogate the crew regarding the damaged cable.

The owners of the ship, a shipping company called Silver Sea, denied any violations. “We agreed to go to the Norwegian port to be verified,” Tormod Fossmark, CEO of the company, Norwegian news media has been told. He said that the company was compatible with a request from the authorities.

On Monday, the authorities resigned in Sweden Various ship Regarding what they described as an act of “grave sabotage” of the Sweden cable to Latvia under the sea one day before. They detained the wholesale transport company, owned by a Bulgarian shipping company and were flying the science of Maltese.

Russian participation in December pieces of the surface cable was suspected of electricity between Finland and Estonia. In this case, the Finnish authorities It seized the oil tanker When they looked at whether the ship’s anchor cut the cable.

Leaders in Finland and Estonia said they believe that the carrier may be part of the “shadow fleet” in Russia, which aims to circumvent the price covers imposed by Western on Russian oil transporting the sea due to the Moscow war in Ukraine. These ships were increasingly suspicious For their role in sabotage A tactic for the hybrid war between Russia and NATO.