Finland Contacts China, Russia Regarding Baltic Sea Pipeline Probe

Finland’s international ministry mentioned on Friday it had contacted China and Russia by way of diplomatic channels concerning the investigation of injury to a pipeline and a telecoms cable within the Baltic Sea.

Early on Oct. 8, a gasoline pipeline and a telecoms cable connecting Finland and Estonia have been damaged, in what Finnish investigators say might have been deliberate sabotage. 

The Finnish international ministry in a press release to Reuters on Friday mentioned it had contacted China to hunt assist to get in contact with the NewNew Polar Bear vessel, a ship named as a topic of investigation by Finnish police.

Regarding Russia, Finland contacted the Russian international ministry, “stating the seriousness of the matter”, and that an investigation had been launched.

(Reuters – Reporting by Anna Kauranen, writing by Terje Solsvik, enhancing by Gwladys Fouche)

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