““We take the situation seriously,” Finnish Communications Minister Lulu Ranne wrote on the X social network, noting that the authorities are investigating the incident.”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
The cable breaks were discovered on Tuesday and appear to have occurred on land in Finland, it said.
“We take the situation seriously,” Finnish Communications Minister Lulu Ranne wrote on the X social network, noting that the authorities are investigating the incident.
The Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat writes that the damage to the cable in the municipality of Vihti was not sabotage – an excavator working on the cable accidentally cut it.
The causes of another damage – in the city of Espoo – are currently being investigated.
“Cables break for various reasons. It is certainly unusual for two cables to be damaged at the same time,” a representative of Global Connect, whose cables were damaged, told the newspaper.
On November 18, it became known that two underwater optical fiber cables were damaged in the Baltic Sea. One connects Germany with Finland, the other – Sweden with Lithuania.
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The Swedish prosecutor’s office has started a preliminary investigation into suspected sabotage due to cable damage. Finland and Germany also announced a joint investigation and reported “suspected intentional damage” to the cable.
Representatives of the foreign ministries of the two countries believe that security in the region is under threat due to “hybrid war by malicious entities” and also due to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
In the winter of this year, the underwater electric cable connecting Finland and Estonia was broken. In October 2023, telecommunication cables connecting Estonia with Finland and Sweden were damaged.