{"id":137048,"date":"2025-08-11T13:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/137048\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T13:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:36:09","slug":"finland-charges-suspected-russian-shadow-fleet-ship-crew-over-cable-sabotage-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/137048\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland charges suspected Russian shadow fleet ship crew over cable sabotage \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The charges are the latest development in Finland&#8217;s investigation, which also led to the seizure of the Eagle S, prime suspect in the <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/191513\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 2024 incident<\/a> that damaged four submarine cables and disrupted another in the Gulf of Finland.<\/p>\n<p>The sabotage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/russia-shadow-fleet-finnish-bay-snow-eagle-s-december-oil-baltic-sea-europe-waves-europe-kremlin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">triggered calls<\/a> for more robust action against Moscow\u2019s shadow fleet, an armada of aging, often uninsured tankers that sanctioned nations like Russia rely on to bypass international penalties. <\/p>\n<p>NATO has also <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/192172\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mobilized forces<\/a> to protect the seabed and critical communications infrastructure amid a pattern of similar incidents in the Baltic Sea, <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/189599\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">including the severing<\/a> of an internet cable between Finland and Germany in November 2024, and <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/190457\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another between<\/a> Finland and Sweden in December 2024.<\/p>\n<p>POLITICO has contacted the prosecutor\u2019s office for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The charges are the latest development in Finland&#8217;s investigation, which also led to the seizure of the Eagle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":137049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[21977,116,16051,50,270,257,38603,19448,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-137048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-critical-infrastructure","9":"tag-finland","10":"tag-maritime","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-oil","13":"tag-russia","14":"tag-submarines","15":"tag-telecoms","16":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115010403366317887","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}