Damage to Baltic Sea telecoms cable may have occurred in January, operator says

Written By John Manock

Reuters | February 24, 2025

  • Swedish and Finnish police investigating a suspected case of sabotage of a subsea cable in the Baltic Sea say that damage may have occurred as early as January 26.

  • The time closely coincides with that of an outage of a nearby subsea fibre optic cable linking Sweden and Latvia, which was reported at the time.

  • A Swedish prosecutor said on February 3 he had concluded that a Maltese-flagged bulk carrier, the Vezhen, had ruptured the cable linking Sweden and Latvia with its anchor, but that it had been an accident and not sabotage.

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