Estonia says plans to increase NATO's presence in the Baltic Sea announced
NATO will strengthen its presence in the Baltic Sea to protect critical infrastructures in the water area after the incident involving damage to the Est Link 2 Estonian-Finnish electric cable. This was announced by Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal at a press conference in Tallinn on January 2.
"The exact steps will not be made public until they are taken," Interfax quoted Mihal as saying
He also supported Finland in detaining the tanker Eagle S, which is suspected of sabotaging the Est Link 2 electric cable, Gazeta.Ru adds.
Between Estonia and Finland on December 25, there was an emergency outage of the EstLink 2 DC cable. The Estonian operator of electricity and gas supply networks Elering reported that the cause of the incident is unknown, but the reliability of power supply of the Republic is ensured, and reserve capacities are used to compensate for the lack of electricity.
Earlier in the day, Finnish police stopped the Kukapo Islands-flagged tanker Eagle S on suspicion of breaking a cable in the Baltic. The head of the police said that the police had reason to believe that this particular tanker was involved in the cable break.
Later, on December 26, Estonian broadcaster ERR reported that three more submarine cables between Finland and Estonia were interrupted. Elisa Eesti AS and CITIC Telecom CPC, the companies that own the cables, promptly started working on fixing the problems, and the outages had no noticeable impact on users. Nevertheless, the Estonian government decided to hold an emergency meeting about the incident.
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