Maintenance in progress

finnish authorities detained a tanker linked to russia's shadow fleet after it was detected with its anchor lowered at the site of damage to the elisa telecommunications cable connecting helsinki and tallinn. the cable disruption follows a documented multi-year pattern of suspected sabotage against baltic undersea infrastructure. separately, latvian navy data shows zero anchor-dragging incidents over the past year since nato's baltic sentry patrol mission launched — the statistical reversal is sharp.

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