The court in Finland has allowed the detention of a tanker of Russia's shadow fleet suspected of damaging cables in the Baltic Sea. The detained vessel is suspected of involvement in the incident with an energy cable and four communication cables,

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.

General Mark Rutte says the military alliance will step up patrols in the Baltic Sea area as Finnish investigators work to establish whether a ship linked to Russia sabotaged undersea cables there this week.

Finnish police said on Sunday they had found tracks that drag on for dozens of kilometres along the bottom of the Baltic Sea where a tanker carrying Russian oil is suspected of breaking a power line and four telecoms cables with its anchor.

A subsea power link and four data cables were damaged December 25, after Eagle S sailed over them on the Gulf of Finland.

Finland is allowed to keep detained the shadow-fleet tanker that damaged a power link and four data cables in the Baltic Sea last week, a court ruled.Most Read from BloombergIs This Weird Dome the Future of Watching Sports?

The Finnish transmission line operator, Fingrid, filed a request in a Helsinki court on Thursday to seize the tanker Eagle S to secure potential compensation claims. It is suspected that the vessel damaged the EstLink 2 subsea power link.

On Thursday, the Finnish transmission line operator Fingrid filed a request in a Helsinki court to seize the tanker Eagle S to secure potential compensation claims. It is suspected that the vessel damaged the EstLink 2 subsea power link.