Sweden reports damage to Baltic Sea cable

Sweden says its undersea telecoms cable with Estonia was damaged at roughly the same time as a natural gas pipeline and cable linking Finland and Estonia

Gulf of Bothnia
Baltic-connector gas pipeline
Stockholm
SWEDEN
Hiiumaa
Baltic Sea telecoms cable
Saaremaa
Gotland
BALTIC SEA
KALININGRAD (Russia)
Bornholm
POLAND
FINLAND
Inkoo
Helsinki
Gulf of Finland
Tallinn
Paldiski
ESTONIA
RUSSIA
Gulf of Riga
LATVIA 
LITHUANIA
BELARUS
100km 60 miles

NATO members
Applied for NATO membership


Oct 8: Finnish-Estonian pipeline and cable damaged in what Finland says may have been deliberate act. Investigators place several ships in area at time of incident, including Chinese-owned Newnew Polar Bear and Russian-flagged Sevmorput

Oct 17: Sweden’s civil defence minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin says damage to Swedish-Estonian cable occurred “at similar time and in physical proximity” to previous incident, but cable continues to function


Sources: BBC, Fibre Atlantic, Reuters
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