Alert in Germany and Finland due to the breakage of a communications cable in the Baltic due to “an external force”

The foreign ministers of Germany and FinlandAnnalena Baerbock and Elina Valtonen respectively, expressed this Monday the “deep concern” of their countries upon learning of the cut that has occurred in a submarine cable telecommunications at sea Baltic that connected both nations.

“We are deeply concerned about the cut submarine cable connecting Finland and Germany in the Baltic Sea,” they said in a joint statement issued by the two ministers.

“The fact that an incident of this type immediately raises suspicions of intentional damage says a lot about the volatility of our times,” Baerbock and Valtonen stressed regarding an event that An investigation has continued to clarify what happened, something that serves Berlin and Helsinki to remember the threats that weigh on European countries.

“Our European security is not only threatened by the Russia’s war of aggression against Ukrainebut also for the hybrid war of malicious actors“the ministers stressed in their statement.

“Safeguarding our shared critical infrastructure is vital for our security and the resilience of our societies,” the ministers said.

The Finnish company Cinia Oy ininvestigates the causes of what happened with the underwater telecommunications cable between Finland and Germany that has caused the data flow between both countries to be cut off, as reported by the company this Monday.

The sudden interruption means that the cable was completely cut by an external forcealthough a physical inspection has not yet been carried out, Cinia CEO Ari-Jussi Knaapila said at a press conference.

The damage occurred near the southern tip of Öland island in Sweden and could typically take five to 15 days to repair, he added.

It is about the C-Lion1 high capacity fiber optic cablewhich connects Helsinki and the German city of Rostock (north German) across the bottom of the Baltic Sea and has a length of 1,173 kilometers.

Swedish public radio SVT reported that the authorities They were also investigating damage to a communications cable linking Lithuania and Sweden.near the one that was cut.

“It is absolutely necessary to clarify why we currently have two cables in the Baltic Sea that are not working,” Carl-Oskar Bohlin, Minister of Civil Defense, told SVT.