Two telecoms cables in Baltic Sea severed, raising suspicions of sabotage
Outages include 1,200km link between Germany and Finland and 218km cable between Lithuania and Sweden
Two undersea fibre-optic communications cables in the Baltic Sea, including one linking Finland and Germany, have been severed, raising suspicions of sabotage by bad actors.
The episode on Monday recalled other incidents in the same waterway that authorities have probed as potentially malicious, including damage to a gas pipeline and undersea cables last year and the 2022 explosions of the Nord Sea gas pipelines.
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