Vice Admiral Krzysztof Jaworski, Poland’s Maritime Element Commander, informed Reuters that the tanker in query was known as Solar and that it sailed beneath the Antigua flag.
The Russian embassy in Warsaw didn’t instantly reply to an emailed request for remark. Prior to now, Moscow has denied its involvement in undersea sabotage within the Baltic, saying the West was utilizing such claims to curb its sea-borne oil exports.
The 600-megawatt undersea cable hyperlinks the Swedish coast close to Karlshamn with Ustka in northern Poland and permits each grids to depend on cross-border provides when electrical energy is cheaper within the different system.
A spokesperson for Polish grid operator PSE mentioned the cable was working. PSE information confirmed over 600 megawatts had been flowing to Sweden by way of the cable at 1130 GMT.
“This exhibits how harmful the instances we stay in are, how critical the scenario within the Baltic Sea is,” Kosiniak-Kamysz informed a information convention. “Since Sweden and Finland joined the North Atlantic Alliance, the Baltic Sea has grow to be a key marine space, the place the biggest variety of incidents happen, the commonest incidents associated to cable breaks… and sabotage.” He vowed a “agency response” from Poland and NATO to any assault on Baltic Sea infrastructure.
Sweden’s coast guard declined to remark. Reuters was not instantly in a position to attain Sweden’s minister for civil defence.
