Her police Finland announced today that he suspects that the tanker Eagle Swhich came from Russia and is believed to be part of a “ghost fleet”, involved in “sabotage» of an undersea power transmission cable connecting the Finland with her Estonia.

The Cook Islands-flagged vessel was carrying unleaded petrol, which it had loaded from a Russian port, Finnish Customs director general Sami Raksit said at a press conference.

Police are investigating “serious sabotage,” added Robin Lardot, of the National Investigation Agency.

“We have reason to believe that this ship caused damage to Estlink 2 and other cables”police said.

Police and border guards boarded the ship and found that she did not have her anchors up. When the crew was asked to raise the anchors, they saw that they were missing.

The Finnish authorities have taken the ship under their control and are moving it into Finnish territorial waters. The investigations focus on the ship itself, the company that manages it and its crew.

According to its Ministry of Finance of Estoniaexcept for the power cable were damaged and three submarine telecommunications cables. Two of them belong to the company Elisa and the third to Citic Telecom. The country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasized that the damage to the underwater infrastructure “should be considered attacks against our critical infrastructure”.

He also noted that the “ghost fleet” not only violates sanctions imposed on Russia but also poses a security threat in the Baltic Sea and “we cannot just sit back and watch.”

Finnish President Alexander Stubb also called for the “threats” posed by Russia’s ghost fleet to be “eliminated”. “We are closely monitoring the situation” in collaboration with Prime Minister Petri Orpo, he added in a post on the X platform.