Finnish police seize ship suspected of sabotaging undersea cable

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

Finnish police have detained a vessel suspected of damaging an undersea telecoms cable running from Helsinki to Estonia across the Gulf of Finland.

The cargo vessel, the Fitburg, was sailing from St Petersburg to the port of Haifa in Israel, under the flag of St Vincent and Grenadines.

All 14 crew members were arrested after the cable owned by Finnish telecoms operator Elisa was damaged. The operator said in a statement that the damage had "not affected the functionality of Elisa's services in any way", and that its services had been re-routed.
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The detained crew members were Russian, Georgian, Kazakh and Azerbaijani, police added.



Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62040np372o

[Tetrachloride]

1. No such thing as coincidences

or so I have heard.

[popsdenver]

2. Years ago

there were pictures of a strange new Russian Submarine that was forced to surface due to an emergency that shocked the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Military.
It was the strangest shaped submarine ever seen. It was like a catamaran, and looked like it could be set down on a cable on the ocean floor. It was in the area of one of the major cables between Europe and North America........

[IronLionZion]

6. Yup, they have subs designed to lurk around the ocean floor for "research"

I doubt they would admit it, but they clearly have motive and means to cut the cables. They could also simply drag an anchor to damage the cables.

[Botany]

3. Russia is @ war with the Western Democracies and Trump is their asset and alley

End of story.

[surfered]

4. Hybrid warfare

[jaymac]

5. Haven't heard

a truer statement today......thanks B

[popsdenver]

7. I asked a Russian friend

what was the buzz with what his friends and relatives were saying back in Russia......

He tells me that the Russian Citizens are laughing their asses off at how easily Putin has played Trump, and how easily the two of them are bringing down our economy, our beloved democracy and our constitution without starting a war with us, or Putin firing a single missile or rocket to destroy the U.S. And also, that Putin is bragging to them, about how much he helped the Republicans win the elections.