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Two Baltic Sea communications cables have been knocked offline
Two undersea cables in the Baltic Sea were cut, with at least one physically damaged. A cable between Lithuania and Sweden was cut on Sunday morning. The second disrupted cable, about 60 to 65 miles from the first, routes communications between Finland and Germany.
That came after a joint investigation from public broadcasters from Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland that Russia had deployed a fleet of spy ships in Nordic waters. This doesn’t leave the European nations entirely without online communications, as data is typically routed through multiple cables to avoid overreliance on a single one. Cinia, the state-controlled Finnish company that oversees the second cable, said it wasn’t yet determined what caused the outage since they haven’t yet physically inspected it.
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