In mid-October 2023, a Swedish-Estonia telecommunications cable (likely the EE-S 1) was found partially damaged undersea about 50 kilometers from Estonia's Hiiumaa island heading towards Sweden. This damage occurred contemporaneously with recent sabotage incidents targeting the Estonia-Finland Balticconnector gas pipeline and Elisa telecom cables, suggesting a coordinated campaign of infrastructure attacks in the Baltic region. Estonian Minister of Defense Hanno Pevkur highlighted the ongoing investigation to assess potential links between these failures. Pevkur noted the damage scale was small and repaired quickly, but further work is needed to understand the failure's nature and connections to other incidents. The pattern of simultaneous damage to gas and telecom assets undersea underscores increasing security risks and potential hostile acts in the Baltic maritime domain.

In mid-October 2023, a Swedish-Estonia telecommunications cable (likely the EE-S 1) was found partially damaged undersea about 50 kilometers from Estonia's Hiiumaa island heading towards Sweden. This damage occurred contemporaneously with recent sabotage incidents targeting the Estonia-Finland Balticconnector gas pipeline and Elisa telecom cables, suggesting a coordinated campaign of infrastructure attacks in the Baltic region. Estonian Minister of Defense Hanno Pevkur highlighted the ongoing investigation to assess potential links between these failures. Pevkur noted the damage scale was small and repaired quickly, but further work is needed to understand the failure's nature and connections to other incidents. The pattern of simultaneous damage to gas and telecom assets undersea underscores increasing security risks and potential hostile acts in the Baltic maritime domain.