The foreign ministries of Finland and Germany said that the damage raised suspicion of sabotage.
This picture taken on October 12, 2015 shows the C-Lion1 submarine telecommunications cable being laid to the bottom Baltic Sea from the military base island Santahamina in Helsinki, Finland.Damage was detected Monday to the C-Lion1 cable that runs nearly 1.200 kilometres from the Finnish capital, Helsinki, to the German port city of Rostock. Another cable between Lithuania and Sweden was also damaged.
“So we have to state — without knowing in concrete terms who it came from — that this is a hybrid action. And we also have to assume — without already knowing it, obviously — that this is sabotage.” The foreign ministries of Finland and Germany had already said Monday evening that the damage raised suspicion of sabotage.
They said in a joint statement that the damage comes at a time that “our European security is not only under threat from Russia‘s war of aggression against Ukraine, but also from hybrid warfare by malicious actors.” The statement said the countries were investigating the incident, and that it was crucial that such “critical infrastructure” be safeguarded.
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