Helsinki is investigating whether sabotage caused a leak in a Baltic Sea gas pipeline and a break in a data cable between Finland and Estonia.
Sauli Niinistö, Finland’s president, said the damage to the pipeline and cable was down to “external activity” but that the precise cause “is not yet known”. Foreign minister Elina Valtonen later on Tuesday said the two undersea links “have probably been damaged on purpose”.
The potential sabotage echoes last year’s explosions in the Baltic Sea, which destroyed the twin Nord Stream pipelines that connected Germany to Russia.
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