A Finnish court on Friday denied a request for the release of an oil tanker suspected by police of damaging an undersea power line and four telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea last week. Finland on Dec.

Finnish authorities are set to inspect an oil tanker suspected of sabotage after damage to a Baltic Sea electricity cable, the Finnish news agency STT reported on Monday, citing the authorities. The Finnish Transport and Communications Agency (Traficom) is to inspect the Cook Islands-flagged oil tanker Eagle S,

Finnish police said on Thursday they are investigating whether a foreign ship was involved in the damage of an undersea power cable connecting Finland and Estonia following a sudden outage on Wednesday.

The owner of an oil tanker seized by Finland on suspicion of breaking an undersea power line and four telecoms cables in the Baltic Sea last week is seeking the release of the ship, a lawyer representing the company said on Monday.

An oil tanker, Eagle S, owned by Caravella LLC FZ, was seized by Finnish authorities on suspicion of damaging undersea infrastructure in the Baltic Sea. The owner seeks its release. The incident adds to rising tensions in the region following repeated infrastructure outages since 2022.

Finland has seized the Eagle S, a Cook Islands-flagged oil tanker, as part of an investigation into severe damage to underwater cables in the Baltic Sea.

The Finnish coast guard said on Monday it was deploying one of its patrol vessels and a tugboat to assist an oil tanker that suffered engine failure in the Gulf of Finland, seeking to prevent environmental damage.