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Latvian Police Find No Link Between Ship and Cable Damage

1/6/2026

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Latvian police say there is no evidence linking a ship in Liepaja to damage of a telecoms cable in the Baltic Sea.
The incident follows outages of power cables and gas pipelines since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Arelion owns the cable severed near Liepaja, and two other cables were damaged in late December.
Authorities inspected the ship and its anchor but found no connection to the cable damage.

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Latvian police say there is no evidence linking a ship in Liepaja to damage of a telecoms cable in the Baltic Sea.
The incident follows outages of power cables and gas pipelines since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Arelion owns the cable severed near Liepaja, and two other cables were damaged in late December.
Authorities inspected the ship and its anchor but found no connection to the cable damage.