A telecommunication cable connecting Sweden and Estonia<\/a> has been damaged, Sweden\u2019s civil defence minister has said.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> on 8 October.<\/p>\n

Helsinki has said it cannot exclude the possibility<\/a> that a \u201cstate actor\u201d was behind that damage, amid what its national security intelligence service called \u201csignificantly deteriorated\u201d relations with Russia.<\/p>\n

Vladimir Putin has dismissed any suggestion that Russia was behind the damage as \u201crubbish\u201d.<\/p>\n

More details soon \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Source: www.theguardian.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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