Heavy force damaged Baltic Sea gas pipeline, Estonia says

The damage to the Baltic Sea gas pipeline that burst on Sunday was caused by "quite heavy force", Estonian Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur told Reuters on Wednesday, a day after Finland said it could have been a deliberate action.

The damage to the Baltic Sea gas pipeline that burst on Sunday was caused by "quite heavy force", Estonian Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur told Reuters on Wednesday, a day after Finland said it could have been a deliberate action. The Balticconnector subsea gas pipeline and a telecommunications cable connecting Finland and Estonia were damaged on Sunday.

On Tuesday, Helsinki said the damage was likely caused by "outside activity" and that the cause was being investigated. "It can clearly be seen that these damages are caused by quite heavy force," Pevkur said in an interview, adding that investigators were not ruling out anything at this stage.

"So what it is exactly, we have to specify yet, but at the moment it rather seems that it had been mechanical impact or mechanical destruction."

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