Undersea cable disruption in Baltic Sea investigated for possible sabotage

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What just happened? Another undersea cable in the Baltic Sea has been disrupted. At around 12.26 pm local time on Christmas Day, the Estlink 2 power cable linking Finland and Estonia experienced an outage. Finland said sabotage could not be ruled out as a cause.

Finland's prime minister, Petteri Orpo, said the outage had not affected the country's electricity supplies. However, Reuters reports that the capacity between the countries was reduced from the installed capacity of 1,016 MW to 358 MW.

"The authorities remain vigilant even during Christmas and are investigating the situation," Orpo wrote on X.

Finland prime minister Petteri Orpo

According to Finnish public broadcaster Yle, Estlink 2 was unserviceable for several months earlier this year due to planned maintenance, but the connection was restored in September. Arto Pahkin, Operations Manager of Finnish national electricity transmission operator Fingrid, said the possibility of sabotage cannot be ruled out, adding that an investigation into the matter had been initiated.

Authorities in the Baltic Sea area have been on high alert since two undersea cables – a communications cable between Lithuania and the Swedish island of Gotland, and one between Finland and Germany – were damaged in November.

Tracking sites showed that Chinese bulk carrier Yi Peng 3 had sailed over the cables around the time they were cut. The Wall Street Journal reported that Western intelligence services believe the ship's Chinese captain was "induced by Russian intelligence" to damage the cables using the vessel's anchor.

Earlier this week, Sweden said that China had denied a request for prosecutors to conduct an investigation on the vessel and that it had left the area.

Russia has said that claims it was involved in the sabotage of undersea cables as retaliation against Western nations aiding Ukraine are "absurd" and "laughable."

This month saw the International Telecommunication Union, a UN agency that oversees global communication technologies, announce the formation of the International Advisory Body for Submarine Cable Resilience. As the name suggests, the organization aims to strengthen the resilience of these cables, which carry over 99% of international data exchanges.

NATO is also developing a way of protecting undersea cable sabotage: a fleet of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) that will patrol high-risk naval zones in regions such as the Baltic and Mediterranean.

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Undersea cable disruption in Baltic Sea investigated for possible sabotage

 

[Eldrach]

100% sabotage - three undersea cables in the same area damaged in a short timespan - Chinese authorities refusing to cooperate. I mean, it's stupid by Russia, they're desperate to end the moneysink that is the ukrainian war - when that war ends, even if they do get the 18% of Ukraine they supposedly went to war for - there's little value there after it's been torn to shreds and even in 100 years it won't reimburse the cost this has had on the Russian economy.

 

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100% sabotage - three undersea cables in the same area damaged in a short timespan - Chinese authorities refusing to cooperate. I mean, it's stupid by Russia, they're desperate to end the moneysink that is the ukrainian war - when that war ends, even if they do get the 18% of Ukraine they supposedly went to war for - there's little value there after it's been torn to shreds and even in 100 years it won't reimburse the cost this has had on the Russian economy.

The things that are dear to a sane person, are worthless to a Russian. Victories, death on the battlefields and fear in the eyes of the enemies looking at t64 rolling through their land (they are really using these ancient tanks). That is the stuff, baby! Civilization's amenities such as clean water and sewage are near worthless to a brave fierce man ready to die for his father and king.
This would be a joke if we were not watching it in real time.
If someone could summarize all the things Russians are losing their lives and limbs today,
there would be very few reasons to not diagnose insanity.
A man having such rich land that can feed the nation with just with those earth minerals, that lives in such misery and poverty has to have a mental disability of sort.
Russia's close proximity to civilization made it look like a modern nation. But it is not.
Modern civilization made almost every country better, which then was transferred into much better living conditions for each of its members.
Except for Russia because it took everything civilization could give it, and used it to prepare
for revenge for USSR death, which Putin personally spoke of as a tragedy, and obviously as the act of sabotage by the west.
If someone could teleport it to the Middle East, somewhere like Syria, it would be its righteous place.