Lithuania investigates possible sabotage behind severed undersea cable to Sweden

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda has raised the possibility of sabotage as a potential cause for the severed submarine communications cable connecting Lithuania to Sweden.

“It’s too early to draw final conclusions, but both options are possible: deliberate damage and an accident due to carelessness,” he said, Caliber.Az reports, citing Russian media.

According to the president, the responsible authorities are investigating the incident.

The damaged undersea telecommunications cable, operated by Lithuanian internet provider Telia, has already experienced several outages due to its age. Despite the cable's history of technical failures, no evidence of sabotage has been found as of now, according to Telia's technology director.

In a separate incident on November 18, another undersea cable, Cinia C-Lion1, which runs along the Baltic Sea floor between Finland and Germany, was also found to be damaged. This cable, the first to directly connect Finland and Germany across the Baltic, is part of a network previously routed through Sweden and Denmark. Investigations into both cable incidents are ongoing, although no definitive cause has yet been established

By Khagan Isayev