Finland’s security service has said a “state actor” may have sabotaged the undersea gas pipeline that was torn open on Sunday, amid speculation that Russia was behind the incident.
The Balticconnector pipeline between Finland and Estonia is likely to be out of action for several months after a “mechanical force” ripped apart its concrete casing and cracked open the pipe at a depth of about 60 metres, a few miles outside Finnish territorial waters.
The same night, a submarine data cable between the two countries was knocked out by unspecified damage in Estonia’s maritime economic zone.
