UA telecommunications cable located in the Baltic Sea between Finland and Germany has been damaged, reported Monday the Finnish company Cinia, in charge of this almost 1,200 kilometer long cable between Helsinki and Rostock.
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The German Minister of Defense, Boris Pistorius, estimated on Tuesday that “sabotage” was certainly at the origin of the damage observed on two telecommunications cables passing in the Baltic Sea, between Finland and Germany on the one hand, Sweden and Lithuania on the other hand.
“No one believes that these cables were cut by accident (…) We must start from the principle (…) that it is sabotage,” said Mr. Pistorius, on the sidelines of a meeting of Defense ministers of the EU in Brussels.
“I do not believe in the versions of (boat) anchors which would have accidentally caused damage to these cables,” added the German minister.
On Monday evening, Lithuanian television LRT claimed, citing Swedish telecommunications operator Telia, that a telecommunications cable between Sweden and Lithuania had been damaged on Sunday.
Several incidents have taken place in recent months in the Baltic area, a maritime zone shared by the Nordic and Baltic countries, Poland and Germany, which are concerned about threats of destabilization attributed to Moscow.
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