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This marks the second time in a 12 months that Baltic Sea infrastructure — which incorporates communications cables and vitality pipelines akin to Nord Stream — has been broken, elevating issues over safety and sabotage.
Another telecom cable within the Baltic Sea between Lithuania and Sweden’s Gotland Island was broken Sunday morning, telecom firm Telia Lietuva, a department of Sweden’s Telia, reported Monday.
In October final 12 months, the Balticconnector fuel pipeline and a telecom cable connecting Finland and Estonia had been broken. A telecom cable linking Estonia to Sweden was additionally broken on the identical evening, together with certainly one of Russia’s telecos cables within the Gulf of Finland. Investigations have since targeted on a Chinese vessel, the Newnew Polar Bear, which was within the space throughout one of many incidents.
Häkkänen described such assaults on crucial infrastructure in worldwide waters as “form of a brand new factor,” and stated they’re tough to stop.
“These undersea cables are fairly seemingly essentially the most tough components of our societies to guard when they’re below worldwide waters, on the seabed. So that’s why that is so tough for Western nations,” he stated.
