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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jon Henley Europe correspondent

Finland says ‘state actor’ not ruled out in mystery of damaged Baltic gas pipeline

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. Photograph: Estonian Navy Handout/Reuters

Finland has said it cannot exclude the possibility that a “state actor” was behind damage to a gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea, amid what its national security intelligence service called “significantly deteriorated” relations with Russia.

The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said on Thursday the US would support Finland and Estonia as they probed the damage to the Balticconnector pipeline and parallel Estlink telecommunications cable between the two countries.

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