Underwater cables in Baltic Sea damaged

Two undersea fibre-optic communications cables in the Baltic Sea, including one linking Finland and Germany, have been severed, sparking alarm of sabotage by bad actors


1 Nov 18, 02:00GMT: 1,200km C-Lion1 cable between Helsinki and German port of Rostock stops working, Finnish state operator Cinia says

2 Nov 17, 08:00GMT: 218km BCS East-West Interlink between Lithuania and Sweden's Gotland Island
goes out of service, Swedish telecoms operator Telia reports


NORWAY
DENMARK
SWEDEN
Gotland Island
Bornholm Island
Rostock 
GERMANY
Baltic Sea
FINLAND 
Helsinki
Hanko
C-Lion1
Gulf of Finland
ESTONIA
RUSSIA
LATVIA
Sventoji
LITHUANIA 
RUS.
Cable break
POLAND
BELARUS
100km 60 miles
1 2 3 4


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3 2023: Subsea gas pipeline and two telecoms cables cut in Gulf of Finland by anchor of Chinese ship – authorities have not said whether damage was accidental or intentional

4 2022: Nord Stream gas pipelines linking Russia to Germany destroyed near Danish island of Bornholm by explosions – case remains under investigation by German authorities


Sources: Reuters, Telegeography
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