COPENHAGEN, July 26 (Reuters) – Finland suspects a Russian vessel violated the Nordic nation’s territorial waters on Friday, the federal government stated, within the newest incident to cloud relations between the 2 international locations.
The federal government stated Friday’s incident befell within the jap Gulf of Finland.
“The Border Guard is investigating the incident and can present additional data because the investigation progresses,” the Finnish defence ministry stated in a press release.
Finnish each day Helsingin Sanomat quoted border guard chief investigator Petter Stauffer as saying the ship was a seabed exploration vessel working beneath the Russian navy’s Baltic Sea fleet.
Stauffer instructed the newspaper that the ship was escorted out of the world by a Finnish border guard vessel, and that the incident lasted round seven minutes.
The Finnish defence ministry and the border guard company didn’t instantly reply to Reuters requests for additional remark.
Relations between Finland and Russia have soured because the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, which prompted Helsinki to be part of the NATO navy alliance after a long time of non-alignment, and to shut all border crossings with Russia.
Final month, Finland stated 4 Russian navy planes had violated its airspace on June 10.
(Reporting by Louise Breusch Rasmussen; modifying by Terje Solsvik and Mark Heinrich)
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