Finland's Foreign Ministry said on October 20 that it had contacted China and Russia via diplomatic channels regarding the investigation of damage to a pipeline and a telecoms cable in the Baltic Sea. Early on October 8, a gas pipeline and a telecoms cable connecting Finland and Estonia were broken, in what Finnish investigators say may have been deliberate sabotage. The Finnish Foreign Ministry said in a statement given to Reuters that it had contacted China to seek help getting in touch with the Hong Kong-registered NewNew Polar Bear vessel, a ship named as a subject of investigation by Finnish police.
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