Investigators seeking to establish whether it came from a Chinese container vessel and have not ruled out sabotage
Finland’s central criminal police said on Tuesday that the anchor, weighing 6 tonnes and missing one of its prongs, had been lifted from the seabed using a navy crane. Deep drag marks were found on both sides of the fractured pipeline.on the Hong Kong-flagged, Chinese-owned NewNew Polar Bear, told reporters in Helsinki on Tuesday that the container ship was missing a front anchor.
Investigators subsequently said they suspected the damage was caused by “an external force” that was “mechanical, not an explosion”. The state security intelligence service said the involvement of a state actor “cannot be ruled out”.after abandoning its longstanding policy of non-alignment after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the transatlantic alliance has pledged a “united and determined response” if the pipeline damage was caused by sabotage.
The Swedish navy told public broadcaster SVT that tracks had been found on the seabed nearby, but added: “We don’t know if it’s deliberate or an accident.”Nato’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, said on Tuesday alliance members had “tens of thousands of kilometres” of submarine internet cables, power cables, gas pipelines and oil pipelines from the Baltic to the Mediterranean.
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