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.
I’m at a loss at to what is their reasoning doing it.
It won’t have any lasting effects except better policing of ships and cables?
Like a baby pushing the sleeping bloodlust viking, then they pour a glass of water on them, waking them up. Then trying to cut them with a pair of scissors…
Why?
It’s damaging infrastructure, which could help Russia
Disruption.
Yesh but what for? Internet will be back up and we’ll all be arming up and monitor more?
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
Was it an accident though?
Edit: mixed up the two, probably an accident.
I suppose that the construction firm could have been paid to sabotage it, but that’s conspiracy territory
Oh yeah I mixed up the two, sorry!
Just disruption for the sake of diversion.