How We informed Interia, according to the Washington Post, the fresh incidents related to the harm to offshore cables in the Baltic are a series of accidents, human errors and the effect of insufficient crew experience alternatively than the deliberate action of hostile states.
The most common explanation repeated in public space was so far Russian sabotage. Let us add – thesis, regularly repeated by state politicians NATO.
The ‘HR’ refers to American and European intelligence sources. According to the newspaper, the investigation related to the demolition of infrastructure around the Scandinavian states did not show "no evidence that merchant ships suspected of dragging anchors down the seabed were doing so intentionally or at Moscow's command".
The American diary points to a concrete example. It's about the incidental that happened on Christmas erstwhile the oil tanker Eagle S It was expected to harm the cable. Estlink 2 in the Gulf of Finland. ‘HR’ refers to Finnish intelligence officers, according to which the harm to the installation was accidental.
However, the authors add that officials in Finland cannot completely exclude any action on this substance from the Russia.
There was no sabotage in the Baltic? Finnish General: full Nonsense
A completely different position Pekka Toveri – a retired Finnish general and now a Euro MP. In an interview with the Washington Post, he stressed that the findings that the Eagle S ship was operating was accidental are ‘total nonsense’.
Firstly, Toveri points out that the Russian services know precisely how to act, so as not to leave evidence of sabotage. ‘The most crucial thing in any hybrid operation is denial“The general explained in a conversation with the journal.
Toveri besides indicated that It's hard to imagine. A situation in which the Eagle S crew did not announcement that an anchor was drawn to the seabed for 100 kilometres.
The demolition of cables in the Baltic Sea. "I'm not even going to comment"
Finnish public broadcaster Yle quotes, on the another hand, the Chief Inspector of the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation, who speaks like Toveri.
Sami Liimetainen He is investigating an Eagle S oil tanker and points out that he has not heard any claims in the “Washington Post” article.
– I'm not even going to comment on something like that. (Article in 'WP' – ed.), but I will leave abroad newspapers to their own information. The Bureau of Investigation is investigating a crime," Liimetainen indicated in an interview with Yle.
Source: "Washington Post", Yle
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