STOCKHOLM: A Baltic Sea telecom cable connecting Sweden with Estonia has been broken at roughly the identical time as a Finnish-Estonian pipeline and cable had been broken earlier this month, Sweden’s civil defence minister mentioned on Tuesday.
The injury to the cable was sustained outdoors the territorial waters and unique financial zone of Sweden, Swedish Civil Defence Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin informed a information convention, and the cable had continued to operate since then.
“We won’t say in the intervening time what induced this injury,” he mentioned. “However what we will say is that this injury has occurred at an analogous time and in bodily proximity … to the injury that was beforehand reported to a fuel pipeline between Estonia and Finland and a telecommunications cable between Estonia and Finland.”
Europe and Nato have grow to be more and more involved in regards to the vulnerability of important infrastructure round and beneath the Baltic Sea.
The information comes simply days after Finland mentioned Helsinki mentioned {that a} subsea fuel pipeline and a telecommunications cable connecting Finland and Estonia had been broken in what could have been a deliberate act.
That, in flip, adopted explosions in September 2022 which ruptured the Nord Stream pipelines beneath the Baltic Sea and minimize Europe’s provide of Russian fuel.
The injury to the cable was sustained outdoors the territorial waters and unique financial zone of Sweden, Swedish Civil Defence Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin informed a information convention, and the cable had continued to operate since then.
“We won’t say in the intervening time what induced this injury,” he mentioned. “However what we will say is that this injury has occurred at an analogous time and in bodily proximity … to the injury that was beforehand reported to a fuel pipeline between Estonia and Finland and a telecommunications cable between Estonia and Finland.”
Europe and Nato have grow to be more and more involved in regards to the vulnerability of important infrastructure round and beneath the Baltic Sea.
The information comes simply days after Finland mentioned Helsinki mentioned {that a} subsea fuel pipeline and a telecommunications cable connecting Finland and Estonia had been broken in what could have been a deliberate act.
That, in flip, adopted explosions in September 2022 which ruptured the Nord Stream pipelines beneath the Baltic Sea and minimize Europe’s provide of Russian fuel.
