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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent

We assume damage to Baltic Sea cables was sabotage, German minister says

Boris Pistorius
Boris Pistorius speaking in Brussels on Tuesday. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Germany has said it has to assume that damage to two undersea fibre-optic communication cables in the Baltic Sea since Sunday was an act of sabotage.

Two cables – one between Finland and Germany, the other between Sweden and Lithuania – were severed on Sunday and Monday, raising suspicions of a malicious attack, though authorities initially declined to speculate.

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