In the three months between November and January, three incidents of damage to Baltic Sea underwater cables have taken place, severing at least partly seven different telecommunication links that connect Baltic states like Sweden, Finland, Germany, Estonia and Latvia. All in all, Statista's Katharina Buchholz has counted damage to 10 different Baltic underwater cables and three gas pipes, starting with the highly publicized rupture of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines back in 2022. You will find more infographics at Statista A report by The Washington Post...

This audio is created with AI assistance Russia’s state-controlled telecom giant Rostelecom announced on Feb. 8 that one of its underwater cables in the Baltic Sea had been damaged due to an "external impact." The company did not specify the cause of the damage but confirmed that repair work was underway. Rostelecom said that the incident did not affect consumers, according to AFP. The damage comes amid a series of recent disruptions to undersea telecom and power cables in the Baltic Sea. Western experts and officials have accused Russia of...

Feb 8 (Reuters) - An underwater Russian Baltic Sea telecoms cable was damaged by an "external impact," Russia's TASS news agency cited the country's state-owned Rostelecom company as saying on Saturday. "Rostelecom's submarine cable was damaged in the Baltic Sea as a result of an external impact some time ago," TASS cited Rostelecom as saying. Restoration work is under way and the incident has had no impact on subscribers so far, Rostelecom added. Rostelecom did not provide further details and it was unclear when the damage occurred. Finland's coast guard...

Finnish coastguards said on Saturday they were monitoring repairs of a Russian underwater cable carried out by a Russian vessel in the Gulf of Finland. Several undersea telecom and power cables have been severed in the Baltic Sea in recent months, with experts and politicians accusing Russia of orchestrating a hybrid war against Western countries supporting Ukraine. "The coastguards in the Gulf of Finland are monitoring... a Russian vessel repairing a broken Russian cable," they said on X. ‘It’s Our Backyard’: On Board a Lithuanian Patrol for Russian Hybrid Threats...