Prosecutors in Stockholm launch preliminary investigation into suspected sabotage, hours after Germany dubs cable failure part of a ‘hybrid operation’
German minister for defence Boris Pistorius speaks to the press as he arrives for a meeting of EU defence ministers in Brussels on Tuesday. Photograph: Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Imagesship moving near two telecoms cables that failed within hours of each other on the Baltic Sea bed in recent days.
“Even without concrete knowledge of the perpetrator,” he said, “we have to call this a hybrid operation and must assume, without being certain, that this was sabotage.” A year ago Finland found that another Chinese ship called Newnew Polar Bear damaged a Baltic gas pipeline. The Newnew Polar Bear was flagged in Hong Kong and its owner, a Chinese logistics company with reportedly strong Russian connections, insisted the damage was accidental.
Lithuanian telecoms company Telia Lietuva said the damage to the other cable to Sweden happened in a 10sq m crossing with the C-Lion-1 cable. Finland’s national cyber security centre said it was “certainly possible” that the cable had broken due to wear and tear or an accident.
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