Two submarine fiber optic communications cables severed inside a number of hours. The newest alarm comes from the Baltic Sea doable sabotage actions linked to the “proxy war” between NATO and Moscow, in a very sizzling space from a geopolitical viewpoint, with 9 nations bordered by the “East Sea” (together with Russia).
The two cables reduce
That was the primary connection to go down on Sunday morning web between Lithuania and the Swedish island of Gotlandsecured by a 218 kilometer lengthy cable. Then, within the evening between Sunday and Monday, it was the C-Lion1, nearly 1,200 kilometer connection between Helsinki and the German port of Rostock. Fortunately, the info flows didn’t cease fully due to the backup supplied by different submarine cables.
The harm to the Finland-Germany cable occurred close to the southern tip of the Swedish island of Oland e it might take 5 to fifteen days to restorementioned Ari-Jussi Knaapila, CEO of Finnish state-owned cybersecurity and telecommunications firm Cinia.
Germany and Finland anxious
“We are deeply concerned for the severed submarine cable,” they said Finland and Germany in a joint statement, adding that it was investigating «a accident raising suspicions of intentional damage» and mentioning possible episodes of “hybrid warfare”. “Safeguarding our shared critical infrastructure is fundamental to our security and the resilience of our societies,” Berlin and Helsinki concluded in the statement.
A number of hours later a spokesperson for the Telia Lietuva firm, Audrius Stasiulaitis, confirmed that the opposite cable was additionally severed.
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