In a joint statement, the Finnish and German foreign ministers say that they are “deeply concerned”. – Our European security is not only threatened by Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, but also by hybrid warfare from malicious actors, the statement further states. It was earlier Monday that the Finnish network operator Cinia said that they had discovered a fault on the submarine cable C-Lion1. – The cause of the error is being investigated, the company said in a statement. – At this time, it is not possible to assess the cause of the cable break, but breaks like this do not happen in these waters without being influenced from the outside. Also sea cable between On Monday evening, it is clear that another sea cable is damaged, between Lithuania and Sweden, according to Lithuanian public radio LRT. This cable was used by Telia, which has known about the breach since Sunday morning. Then the system reported a network failure, the technology director of the company, Andrius Šemeškevičius told LRT. Šemeškevičius further says that they got the network back on this stretch on Monday evening. Telia sends internet to Lithuania via three cables. It is still unknown whether these two incidents are connected in any way. Published 18.11.2024, at 19.49 Updated 18.11.2024, at 19.54
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