According to Reuters, two undersea fibre-optic communications cables in the Baltic Sea, including one linking Finland and Germany, were severed, raising suspicions of sabotage.
The 1,200-km cable connecting Helsinki to the German port of Rostock stopped working on 18 November, Finnish state-controlled cyber security and telecoms company Cinia said as reported.
Furthermore, per the reports, a 218-km internet link between Lithuania and Sweden’s Gotland Island went out of service on 17 November according to Lithuania’s Telia Lietuva, part of Sweden’s Telia Company (TELIA.ST).
Reuters reports that the episode 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.
