The suspected damage of an underwater power cord this month between Finland and Estonia was a “wake-up contact” that demanded new EU sanctions against Russia’s” darkness fleet,” according to Germany on Saturday.
Only over a quarter after two telecommunications wires were severed in Swedish territorial lakes in the Baltic, the Estlink 2 cord, which supplies power from Finland to Estonia, was cut off from the generator on Wednesday.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock stated in a speech to the Funke media group that” boats are about every month causing significant undersea cables in the Baltic Sea.”
She claimed that when they drag cables up to the ocean, they drag them for miles without getting anywhere, and then they lose them when they are pulled up.
” It’s more than challenging to also believe in coincidences. We must all be called to wake up right away because of this.
Despite blockades imposed as a result of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, Baerbock urged “new Western sanctions against the Russian dark fleet,” which is a ship that transports Russian crude and oil items.
The Russian navy uses the fleet to fund its “war of aggression in Ukraine,” she said, calling it a “major threat to our environment and security.”
In a probe into “aggravated damage” of the Estlink wires, Scandinavian officials announced on Thursday that they were looking into the oil ship Eagle S, which sailed from a Russian interface.
NATO will boost its military presence in the Baltic Sea in reply, the European group’s director general, Mark Rutte, said on Friday.
