A telecommunication cable connecting Sweden and Estonia has been damaged, Sweden’s civil defence minister has said.
Carl-Oskar Bohlin said the incident appeared to have occurred at the same time as a subsea gas pipeline and a telecom cable connecting Finland and Estonia were damaged on 8 October.
Helsinki has said it cannot exclude the possibility that a “state actor” was behind that damage, amid what its national security intelligence service called “significantly deteriorated” relations with Russia.
Vladimir Putin has dismissed any suggestion that Russia was behind the damage as “rubbish”.
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Source: www.theguardian.com