The undersea cable between Finland and Germany has been severed – communication links are down.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20125324

by Piiras

43 comments

  1. > The approximately 1,173-kilometer-long undersea cable runs from Helsinki to Rostock. Its installation in the Baltic Sea was completed in early 2016.

    I wonder if this this has anything to do with the Biden administration lifting ban on Ukraine using US weapons to strike deep inside Russia. Lately Russia has shown an interest in undersea cables in northern Europe.

  2. If Russia wants to harass NATO and other countries in this way because they do not agree to Russia attacking and killing people, then honestly, maybe we should deal with Russia and close their ports on the Baltic Sea. They do not have to sail further than 5 km from the Strait of Finland, and access to Kalininagrad (“Królewiec”) is only possible with ships borrowed from NATO under its full control. The problem will be solved in 5 minutes.

  3. Time for another debate whether this deserves a strongly worded letter or a speech about how worried we are about further escalations.

  5. Time to deploy depth charges in a surprise exercise.

  8. Russia just announced an immediate response, so I guess it’s starting now

  9. “A communications disruption can mean only one thing, invasion“

  11. Ughhh why it has to always be us? Can’t everybody just live in peace okay? Putin you want the Oltermanni cheese? Take it, I don’t care

  13. We need an EU Army and we need it now. Just put an EU military HQ somewhere next to the SHAPE in Mons or in Luxembourg, give it a difficult name (but not ‘EU army’), give it a huge budget and start preparing against Putler.

  14. Those damn cable cutting crabs at it again. We need to get bigger pots.

  15. Caspian report made a video on this topic and everyone made fun in the comments! LoL 

  16. Russian cowards are at war with the west. We need to stop bickering and fight back

  17. While i am suspicious of Russia doing that, please remember that undersea cables are [cute all the time by ship anchors.](https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a24064/anchor-cuts-undersea-internet-cables/) We have to wait for the damage analysis. The Fins will be able to tell if it was on purpose or not.

    Ok, after saying that, who are we kidding? [Russia, it was Russia.](https://www.newsweek.com/russia-pipeline-gas-patrushev-putin-1984215)

  18. Don’t worry we got Detective Dan to find out who did this, it’s a real twist.

  19. Is the EU already typing out the strongly worded letter of disapproval?

  20. Everyone is gangsta until European boomers can’t have their Facebook.

  21. To bad that Biden didn’t specify that his new approach is super limited before Putin retaliated against someone else.

    Now we got retaliation with out any significant new contribution to Ukraine. What a shitshow.

  24. Finland has 7 undersea cables. While this one is a direct connection to Germany there are multiple that connect to other countries connecti g to Germany?

  25. How difficult is it to sabotage communication infrastructure between Kaliningrad and mainland russia, for example? At the very least, the West can start returning the favor.

  27. Time to blow up Vlad’s bridge between Russia an the Crimea

  28. Purposeful damage to critical communication infrastructure is act of war, this is not funny at all.

  30. Something like this happens on a regular basis and has happened many times in the past – both with communication- and power cables. When they find the perpetrator it often turns out to be a drunk captain/pilot or someone who does not have updated charts – who decided to throw anchor the wrong place.

    It could be a Russian drunk captain, but it might be someone one else, it could even be someone who have malicious intentions – we do not know.

  31. Today also just happened to be the day when Finland led “Freezing Winds 24” navy exercise started with NATO partners, including Germany.

  33. Two days ago, a Russian vessel was escorted from the Irish sea near similar cables between Britain & Ireland.

    What a coincidence…

  34. “We are deeply concerned by this developement, and we will re-evaluate our relations with whoever is found to be responsible, blah-blah-blah…”

  35. It is time that political leaders make a brunch to condemn Russian threat to European infrastructures

  36. Get the team who still investigates who cut Nordstream 2, they should be in the area.

  41. Who might have done that? I can’t imagine who might be to blame.

  42. How come the second something like that happens it doesn’t create a emergency alerts and unmanned aerial vehicles don’t go cruising to the scene of the crime to try to see who is the first suspects are

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