Norwegian police said they seized and boarded a Norwegian ship with an all-Russian crew on suspicion of involvement in damaging a telecoms cable linking Sweden and Latvia in the Baltic Sea last Sunday.
The ship, named Silver Dania, was seized at the request of Latvian authorities by Norway’s coast guard and police in the northern Norwegian city of Tromsø.
“It is suspected that the ship has been involved in serious damage to a fiber cable in the Baltic Sea between Latvia and Sweden,” the police said in a statement on Friday.
Sweden and Latvia opened an investigation on Sunday into suspected sabotage of a cable linking the two countries, and Swedish police later seized and boarded a Maltese-flagged ship suspected of causing the damage.
#BREAKING Norway, a NATO member, has seized the Russian ship Silver Dania for allegedly damaging the submarine fiber optic cable between Sweden and Latvia. pic.twitter.com/mLyNvsCMgq
— War Intel (@warintel4u) January 31, 2025
