“Stuffed with spy equipment”: what is known about the tanker that broke the cable in the Baltic Sea

Listening equipment was installed on the tanker Eagle S to monitor the actions of NATO naval forces and aviation.

The Eagle S tanker, suspected of belonging to the Russian shadow fleet and damaging an underwater electrical cable between Finland and Estonia, was equipped with special transmitting and receiving devices used to track naval activity.

This was reported by the Finnish publication Lloyd's List with reference to a source directly related to the tanker arrested by the Finnish police after the incident.

According to a source who provided the Eagle S with commercial marine services seven months ago, the equipment installed on the vessel effectively allowed it to become a “spy ship” for Russia. This equipment was atypical for a merchant ship and consumed too much…