Three cables on the bottom of the Baltic Sea were destroyed within a few hours.
Finnish and Estonian police have singled out the Russian ship Sevmorput as one of several interesting in the investigation.
SVT Nyheter can now show that the ship was nearby in connection with all three instances of damage.
The news about the damaged fiber cable between Sweden and Estonia became known at a press conference with the government yesterday.
SVT Nyheter can now show several new details about the damaged cable in the Baltic Sea. The cable is called EE-S1 and is owned by the Swedish company Arelion, which was previously owned by Telia but which is now owned by the Swedish AP funds.
– We can confirm that it is our cable that has been damaged. It happened in the afternoon on Saturday 7 October, says Mattias Fridström, manager at Arelion.
Unusual event
He states that the current fiber cable is protected by a steel cable that is wrapped around the cable and that four out of six fiber pairs in the line are now destroyed. Internet traffic has now been moved to the remaining fiber pair in the line.
– It is very unusual for a cable to be partially destroyed in this way. It happens that fishermen are careless with their anchors or trawlers, but then the cable usually breaks completely.
The Estonian public prosecutor’s office tells SVT Nyheter that the incidents are being investigated jointly by the security police KAPO and the Finnish Central Criminal Police.
Temporal coupling
According to open satellite data, the Russian nuclear-powered freighter Sevmorput traveled over all the now-destroyed lines. There was also a Chinese cargo ship in close proximity which is also being investigated. There is a temporal connection between the ships’ journey and the time of the occurrence of the damage.
On the afternoon of October 7, the Swedish fiber cable was damaged. During the same afternoon, the two ships passed the area where the Swedish cable was damaged.
A few hours later, the breakdown occurred on the Finnish-Estonian gas pipeline Balticconnector and a communication cable. Here, too, the two ships traveled close to the damage sites close together in time.
In a written comment to SVT Nyheter, the Russian company Rosatom says that it rejects all accusations that the ship Sevmorput is involved and calls the accusations baseless.
Why dont they create an exclusion zone near all critical infrastructure
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Three cables on the bottom of the Baltic Sea were destroyed within a few hours.
Finnish and Estonian police have singled out the Russian ship Sevmorput as one of several interesting in the investigation.
SVT Nyheter can now show that the ship was nearby in connection with all three instances of damage.
The news about the damaged fiber cable between Sweden and Estonia became known at a press conference with the government yesterday.
SVT Nyheter can now show several new details about the damaged cable in the Baltic Sea. The cable is called EE-S1 and is owned by the Swedish company Arelion, which was previously owned by Telia but which is now owned by the Swedish AP funds.
– We can confirm that it is our cable that has been damaged. It happened in the afternoon on Saturday 7 October, says Mattias Fridström, manager at Arelion.
Unusual event
He states that the current fiber cable is protected by a steel cable that is wrapped around the cable and that four out of six fiber pairs in the line are now destroyed. Internet traffic has now been moved to the remaining fiber pair in the line.
– It is very unusual for a cable to be partially destroyed in this way. It happens that fishermen are careless with their anchors or trawlers, but then the cable usually breaks completely.
The Estonian public prosecutor’s office tells SVT Nyheter that the incidents are being investigated jointly by the security police KAPO and the Finnish Central Criminal Police.
Temporal coupling
According to open satellite data, the Russian nuclear-powered freighter Sevmorput traveled over all the now-destroyed lines. There was also a Chinese cargo ship in close proximity which is also being investigated. There is a temporal connection between the ships’ journey and the time of the occurrence of the damage.
On the afternoon of October 7, the Swedish fiber cable was damaged. During the same afternoon, the two ships passed the area where the Swedish cable was damaged.
A few hours later, the breakdown occurred on the Finnish-Estonian gas pipeline Balticconnector and a communication cable. Here, too, the two ships traveled close to the damage sites close together in time.
In a written comment to SVT Nyheter, the Russian company Rosatom says that it rejects all accusations that the ship Sevmorput is involved and calls the accusations baseless.
Why dont they create an exclusion zone near all critical infrastructure