Evika Silia, the Estonian prime minister, announced on Sunday that her government had reached out to Sweden and additional Baltic Sea supporters in Nato for help as it looked into the cause of destruction to an underground data cable that runs to Sweden.
Silia wrote on program X that she was informed in the early days of the day that the data wire connecting Sweden to Latvia had been damaged in the Baltic Sea “in the area that is located in the Special Economic Zone of Sweden.”
She stated that her country was “working along with our Swedish Friends and Nato on investigating the incident, including patrolling the area, as well as inspecting the arteries that were in the place.”
She claimed that as a fugitive research is being launched, there was an increased exchange of information.
LVRTC, a state-run radio and television station in Latvia, reported on Sunday that it had observed delays in data transfer on the wires connecting the city of Ventspils to the Swedish island of Gotland, and that it had identified a fracture.
” At the moment, there is reason to believe that the wire is drastically damaged and that the damage is caused by external affects”, Vineta Sprugaine, mind of business contacts at LVRTC, was quoted as saying by the LSM state journalist.
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson reported on X that he has been “in near call” with Silia during the day on Sunday and that at least one wire belonging to a” Romanian object” was suspected to have been damaged.
Latvia’s army was inspecting the Malta-flagged large aircraft Michalis San, believed to be bound for Russia, that was in the broken wire area, according to Estonian broadcaster LSM.
While the LVRTC was undergoing repair work, it claimed that its services continued to use other data transmission routes.
The Latvian on-land radio channel includes radio and television applications in its main channel, the LVRTC.
There have been reports of data cables breaking on the Baltic sea bed that are supposedly connected to Russia’s dark ship, hundreds of aging tankers with uncertain ownership that are avoiding sanctions and preventing oil revenue from entering the nation.
Nato lately announced that its European security surveillance mission will increase.
