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Believing sabotage as the cause of the cuts of three subsea data and power cables late last week linking Finland and Estonia, the list of European nations calling NATO and the EU for help is growing.
In the latest round of disconnection in the Baltic Sea, Finnish authorities seized, boarded, and sequestered a ship carrying Russian oil that is suspected of causing the most recent cuts.
The European Union (EU) has begun preparing sanctions on Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ after the latest Baltic Sea cable was damaged, said Finland Prime Minister Pettori Orpo.
Are shadow fleet ships responsible for subsea cable cuts?
Since the 2022 restrictions on oil imports, Russia is said to have assembled a fleet of several hundred ships to transport oil beyond the reach of the sanction. The shadow fleet is said to generate billions of dollars a year in additional revenue for waging war in Ukraine.
These ships may be participating in what experts say is a form of hybrid warfare. Such warfare is defined as the use of a range of different methods to attack an enemy, for example, the spreading of false information or attacking important computer systems (and disabling crucial subsea cables) as well as, or instead of, traditional
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