Pistorius admits that damage to cables on bottom of Baltic Sea - sabotage and "hybrid action"

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has admitted that the telecommunications cables between Finland, Germany, Lithuania and Sweden were damaged intentionally.

The BBC reports this.

The telecommunications cable between Lithuania and the Swedish island of Gotland stopped working on November 17, and on November 18, communication via the cable between Finland and Germany was lost.

"Nobody believes that these cables were accidentally cut. Therefore, we must declare, without knowing specifically who it came from, that this is a hybrid action," Pistorius said.

However, there is no confirmation of the deliberate damage to the cables yet.

It will take from 5 to 15 days to restore underwater communications.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, the C-Lion-1 submarine fiber-optic communication cable between Finland and Germany has been damaged.

It is known from open sources that the C-Lion1 cable was put into operation in 2016. Its length is 1,173 kilometers, and the depth of its laying is about a meter. The cable runs next to the Nord Stream gas pipeline.