2nd Baltic Sea Cable Cut; Germany Suspects Sabotage

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Damage to two undersea fiber-optic communication cables in the Baltic Seaโ€”one between Lithuania and Sweden, and the other between Finland and Germanyโ€”should be regarded as sabotage, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said on Tuesday.

โ€œNo one believes that these cables were cut accidentally. I also donโ€™t want to believe in versions that these were ship anchors that accidentally caused the damage,โ€ German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said before meeting of European Union defense ministers.

โ€œSo we have to stateโ€”without knowing in concrete terms who it came fromโ€”that this is a hybrid action. And we also have to assumeโ€”without already knowing it, obviouslyโ€”that this is sabotage.โ€

A 218-km (135-mile) internet link between Lithuania and Swedenโ€™s Gotland Island went out of service at about 8 a.m. GMT on Sunday, according to Lithuaniaโ€™s Telia Lietuva, part of Swedenโ€™s Telia Company.

Later, Finnish state-controlled cyber security and telecoms company Cinia revealed that a separate 1,200-kilometre (745-mile) cable connecting Helsinki to the German port of Rostock has also stopped working, around 2 a.m. GMT on Monday,

Teliaโ€™s Chief Technology Officer Andrius ล emeลกkeviฤius told the Lithuanian television station LRT that no cases of sabotage have been recorded so far.

โ€œThese failures are mostly related to shipping, when a ship hooks the cable and breaks it off somewhere in a shallow place, close to the shore, by dropping anchor incorrectly,โ€ he said on Monday.

Lithuaniaโ€™s Navy said on Tuesday it had subsequently increased the surveillance of its waters.

There are about 400 subsea cables across the world, connecting islands, countries, regions, and continents. Subsea cables, which are about as thick as a garden hose, use optical fiber technology to transmit electronic communications data at the speed of light, according to the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA).

The foreign ministers of Finland and Germany said in a Nov. 18 joint statement that they were โ€œdeeply concerned about the severed undersea cable connecting Finland and Germany in the Baltic Sea.โ€

Byย Owen Evans

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