Undersea cable between Germany and Finland severed

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Undersea cable between Germany and Finland severed

Germany and Finland say they are “deeply concerned” after an undersea cable linking the countries was severed.

The rupture of the 1,170km (730-mile) telecommunications cable – which is being investigated – comes at a time of heightened tension with Russia.

The two countries’ foreign ministers said in a ****** statement: “Our ********* security is not only under threat from Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, but also from hybrid warfare by malicious actors.”

Damage to pipelines in the Baltic Sea has raised fears of sabotage in recent years.

In October 2023 a natural gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia was

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. Finnish officials later said the incident had been caused by a ******** container ship dragging its anchor.

And ******* prosecutors are still investigating the

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between Russia and Germany in 2022.

There have been *********** theories around that *******, with unconfirmed rumours that either the Ukrainian, Russian or US government was behind it.

The latest incident involves a C-Lion1 fibreoptic cable linking the Finnish capital, Helsinki and the ******* city of Rostock.

Finnish network operator Cinia said all fibre connections in it had been cut.

“These kinds of breaks don’t happen in these waters without an outside impact,” a Cinia spokesperson told local media.

Samuli Bergstrom, a Finnish government cybersecurity expert, said the ******** had not affected internet traffic between the two countries as other cable routes were available.

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