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Headline: Swedish telecom cable between Sweden & Estonia partially damaged; investigation links timing to earlier Balticconnector and telecom outages
Short Summary: Swedish officials confirm partial damage to a Sweden-Estonia undersea telecommunications cable, concurrent with other regional infrastructure damage events.
Balticconnector sabotage "[1] ALERTSwedish officials have confirmed that a telecommunications cable between #Sweden & #Estonia was partially damaged around the same time that #Estonia-#Finland #Balticconnector gas pipeline & Elisa telecom cables damaged last week." [2] According to Estonia s ERR news, the newly reported Sweden-Estonia cable damage occurred ~50 kilometers from the Estonian island of Hiiumaa in the direction of Sweden, likely meaning the EE-S 1 cable was the line damaged. [3] Estonian MinDef Hanno Pevkur indicates that the investigation into this damage is ongoing and to establish if it is related to the Balticconnector pipeline & Elisa cable cut: [4] Pevkur stated: The scale of this failure was quite small and, as the operators also said, the failure was corrected. It needs to be clarified what exactly was the nature of the failure and whether it is also related to the Estonian-Finnish [communications] cable and [gas] pipeline failure
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