The Helsinki District Court has ordered the seizure of the tanker Eagle S, registered in the Cook Islands and suspected of being part of Russia's so-called "shadow fleet." This development was reported by the Finnish outlet Yle on Monday.

An emerging consensus among U.S. and European security services holds that accidents were the cause of damage to Baltic seabed energy and communications lines.

Amid a series of incidents that have damaged critical cables in the Baltic Sea, intelligence services in the U.S. and Europe are increasingly convinced that accidents led to the incidents, according to a new report by the Washington Post on Jan.