A power cable connecting Finland and Estonia was cut on Wednesday, prompting suspicions of sabotage. Finnish officials are investigating the incident, which follows a string of similar events targeting Baltic Sea cables and pipelines. The Chinese ship Yi Peng 3, which was reportedly in the area at the time of the outage, has denied involvement and said it has left the region.
broke down on Wednesday, Finland ’s prime minister said, the latest in a series of incidents involving cables and energy pipelines in the Baltic Sea .
Finland’s prime minister, Petteri Orpo, said the outage had not affected the country’s electricity supplies. Fingrid said current on the EstLink 2 cable sending electricity to Estonia was cut at 12:26pm local time .Suspicions rapidly fell on the Chinese ship Yi Peng 3, which according to tracking sites had sailed over the cables around the time they were cut.had denied a request for prosecutors to conduct an investigation on the vessel and that it had left the area.
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