Telecommunications Cable Running Between Lithuania and Sweden Cut

Someone’s been playing games in the Baltic again.

LRT (Lithuanian National Radio and TV) is reporting that a telecommunications cable running between Lithuania and Sweden has been cut. It runs alongside two other cables, meaning that the internet bandwidth between the two countries had been reduced by a third, More seriously, another cable carrying data between Germany and Finland was put out of action, severing all data transmission between the two. LRT adds that the 1,200-km-long cable “runs alongside other important pieces of infrastructure, including gas pipelines and electricity cables.”

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Someone’s been playing games in the Baltic again.

LRT (Lithuanian National Radio and TV) is reporting that a telecommunications cable running between Lithuania and Sweden has been cut. It runs alongside two other cables, meaning that the internet bandwidth between the two countries had been reduced by a third, More seriously, another cable carrying data between Germany and Finland was put out of action, severing all data transmission between the two. LRT adds that the 1,200-km-long cable “runs alongside other important pieces of infrastructure, including gas pipelines and electricity cables.”