The Estonian navy conducts a cable survey after the gas pipeline and a telecommunications cable connecting Finland and Estonia were damaged.The Estonian navy conducts a cable survey after the gas pipeline and a telecommunications cable connecting Finland and Estonia were damaged.
“Involvement of a state actor in this job cannot be ruled out,” the director of the security intelligence service , Antti Pelttari, said on Thursday. “Who is behind this is a matter for the preliminary investigation. We do not comment in more detail.”that carried Russian gas to western Europe, has prompted renewed concern over regional energy security and pushed gas prices higher.
Balticconnector’s operators have said it will take at least five months to repair the pipeline and it is unlikely to come on stream again until April 2024 at the earliest. Finland relies on gas for about 5% of its energy supplies. He said two investigations were under way. “We are not speculating at the moment about any cause,” he said, but the governments would get information out as soon as possible. An overview was due to be shared with Nato allies later on Thursday., international sanctions and Finland’s Nato membership, Russia was “currently treating Finland as a hostile country”, the agency said, and would consequently “determine its own measures”.