The Eagle S is suspected of damaging the Estlink-2 power cable which runs under the Baltic Sea between Finland and Estonia by dragging its anchor along the seabed on Christmas Day.
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00:00Police in Finland say the crew of a Russia-linked tanker suspected of damaging a power cable under the Baltic Sea have been detained indefinitely.
00:11The Eagle-S crew consists of 24 people with Finland's Central Criminal Police imposing movement restrictions on eight.
00:20The police in these interrogations and investigations have tried to find out who has had a role in this incident and who has been responsible for the loss of the ship during these events.
00:33On this basis, eight people have been arrested.
00:36The Eagle-S is suspected of damaging the Estlink 2 power cable which runs under the Baltic Sea between Finland and Estonia by dragging its anchor along the seabed.
00:47The cable went down on Christmas Day but there was little impact to services.
00:52The Helsinki Police Department seized the vessel and moved it to port in Porvoo a day later to conduct an investigation.
01:00The Eagle-S is flagged in the Cook Islands but has been described by EU officials as being part of Russia's shadow fleet of tankers shipping oil and gas in defiance of international sanctions.
01:12At the end of December, NATO Chief Mark Rutte said he had spoken to Finland's president and agreed that NATO will enhance its military presence in the Baltic Sea.
01:22Finland shares a more than 1,000-kilometer border with Russia and abandoned its decades-old policy of military neutrality and joined NATO in 2023 in response to the invasion of Ukraine.