FILE – This picture taken on October 12, 2015 shows the C-Lion1 submarine telecommunications cable being laid to the bottom Baltic Sea from a military base in Helsinki, Finland. It was one of two cables in the Baltic Sea that had been cut in recent days.
VILNIUS, Lithuania —
Lithuania\’s Navy said on Tuesday it had increased monitoring of its waters after an undersea communications cable connecting the country with Sweden had been damaged.
An assessment is now being carried out along with allies, a spokesperson for the Lithuanian armed forces told Reuters.
The cable was one of two fiber-optic cables in the Baltic Sea which were severed in recent days, raising suspicions of sabotage by bad actors, countries and companies involved said on Monday.
A spokesperson for Arelion, the owner and operator of the communications cable, told Reuters on Tuesday that the link between Lithuania and Sweden was “fully out” but that the reason remained unclear.
By：VOA
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