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Sabotage on the seabed: How can Europe protect itself?

Several recent submarine data-cable breaks in the Baltic Sea have exposed the vulnerability of critical underwater infrastructure. Russia is suspected of having been involved in the damage.

Europe is ill-prepared for such attacks in the future.

mediafaro.org/article/20250321

An illustration of a cable laying ship seen from above.
Neue Zürcher Zeitung · Sabotage on the seabed: How can Europe protect itself?By Jonas Oesch, Cian Jochem, Lukas Mäder

Sabotage on the seabed: How can Europe protect itself?

Several recent submarine data-cable breaks in the Baltic Sea have exposed the vulnerability of critical underwater infrastructure. Russia is suspected of having been involved in the damage.

Europe is ill-prepared for such attacks in the future.

mediafaro.org/article/20250321

An illustration of a cable laying ship seen from above.
Neue Zürcher Zeitung · Sabotage on the seabed: How can Europe protect itself?By Jonas Oesch, Cian Jochem, Lukas Mäder

Sabotage on the seabed: How can Europe protect itself?

Several recent submarine data-cable breaks in the Baltic Sea have exposed the vulnerability of critical underwater infrastructure. Russia is suspected of having been involved in the damage.

Europe is ill-prepared for such attacks in the future.

mediafaro.org/article/20250321

An illustration of a cable laying ship seen from above.
Neue Zürcher Zeitung · Sabotage on the seabed: How can Europe protect itself?By Jonas Oesch, Cian Jochem, Lukas Mäder

This starts to look coordinated:
"Following Finnish media reports that an unexplained failure of an undersea telecommunications cable has disrupted communication services between Finland and Germany, Telia’s Chief Technology Officer Andrius Šemeškevičius says that the communications cable between Lithuania and Sweden was also damaged." (via @ErikJonker)
lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2

lrt.lt · Undersea cable between Lithuania and Sweden damaged – TeliaBy LRT.lt, LRT TV