Summary

A fiber optic cable connecting Sweden and Finland was damaged on land, affecting 6,000 private customers and 100 businesses.

While Finnish authorities are investigating, Swedish officials suspect sabotage.

This incident follows recent undersea cable damage in the Baltic Sea, where two cables were severed in November, raising similar sabotage concerns.

The Baltic region, home to multiple NATO nations and Russia, has seen heightened tensions since the Nord Stream pipeline explosions in 2022.

Previous cases involved sightings of a China-flagged vessel, but Russia has denied involvement in any incidents.

  • guy
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    48 days ago

    Well this one was an accident, but others are sabotage.
    As said, disruption, and also because there’s no other ways to take revenge on Sweden and Finland’s “unfriendly” behavior of joining NATO 😄 can’t really bomb Helsinki or Stockholm so hybrid operations it is

    • @Valmond
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      8 days ago

      Was it an accident though?

      Edit: mixed up the two, probably an accident.

      • guy
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        18 days ago

        I suppose that the construction firm could have been paid to sabotage it, but that’s conspiracy territory

        • @Valmond
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          18 days ago

          Oh yeah I mixed up the two, sorry!