ER Editor: A reminder of cable outages this year —
March 2024, Africa —
South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia and Ivory Coast hit by major internet outages
July 2024, France —
Second Sabotage? French Internet Fiber Cables Severed, Causing Widespread Disruptions
November 19, Germany and Finland —
Undersea data cable between two NATO countries breaks
End of November, Denmark —
Denmark Hit By ‘Whole Country’ Mobile Outage, Trains Halted
Early December, Sweden and Finland —
Telecoms Cable Between Sweden & Finland Damaged In Two Separate Places
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FINLAND-ESTONIA UNDERSEA POWER CABLE FAILURE: SABOTAGE SUSPECTED
A critical undersea power cable connecting Finland and Estonia was disrupted on Wednesday, raising concerns of potential sabotage in the Baltic Sea.
Finland’s PM, Petteri Orpo, confirmed the outage but assured… pic.twitter.com/cGFhwncCJz
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) December 25, 2024
BREAKING: In Finland The Estonian Undersea Power Cable Has Been Purposely Cut. Estlink Two Is One Of The Two Cables Connecting The Baltic Power Grid To Finland.
China’s Ship Xin Xin Tiang, Crossed The Cable At Noon Local Time. pic.twitter.com/i5jpOMAWk6— John Basham (@JohnBasham) December 25, 2024
The undersea power cable Estlink 2 between Finland and Estonia has been destroyed.
The Estlink Two cable connected the Baltic power grid to Finland.
The Chinese vessel Xin Xin Tiang was sailing over it when it happened pic.twitter.com/xiM0iBsEmw
— Shivan Chanana (@ShivanChanana) December 25, 2024
We are not placing our bets on China or Russia being behind any of this.
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Another Baltic Sea cable mysteriously breaks down
The undersea connection delivering electricity from Finland to Estonia has suffered an outage
RT
The Finnish authorities are investigating an outage of the undersea power cable connecting Finland and Estonia, Prime Minister Petteri Orpo has said.
The operator of Estlink 2, which delivers electricity to Estonia via the Baltic Sea, recorded the failure on Wednesday, according to the power exchange Nord Pool.
“The authorities are on standby over Christmas and are investigating the matter,” Orpo wrote on X, adding that the power supply in Finland has not been affected.
The cable’s operator, Fingrid, will start inspecting the damage on Thursday morning, the company’s network operations manager, Arto Pahkin, said.
“We are investigating several possible causes, from sabotage to technical failure, and nothing has been ruled out yet,” Pahkin told Helsingin Sanomat on Wednesday. “At least two vessels were sailing near the cable at the time of disruption.”
Estonian transmission system operator Elering said the country’s electricity supply will continue. “The exact reserve capacities that will be activated depends on the market situation, but these reserve capacities exist in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania,” Elering board member Reigo Kebja told public broadcaster ERR.
Last month, two undersea telecommunications cables were disrupted – C-Lion1, which connects Germany and Finland, and BCS East-West Interlink, which connects Sweden and Lithuania. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said at the time that Berlin had to “assume, without certain information, that the damage was caused by sabotage.”
The cables run close to the Nord Stream pipelines damaged by sabotage in September 2022. While no one claimed responsibility for the attack, Western media outlets have reported that people linked to Ukraine were behind the operation.
Moscow claimed in October 2024 that it has evidence the US and UK were responsible for the Nord Stream sabotage. London and Washington, as well as Kiev, have denied any involvement.
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