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Ein Defekt am Ostsee-Glasfaserkabel "C-Lion1" wird zum Politikum. In einer gemeinsamen Erklärung zeigten sich die Regierungen von Deutschland und Finnland über den Vorfall "zutiefst besorgt". Eine gründliche Untersuchung sei im Gange. [...] Kurz zuvor hatte der finnische Technologiekonzern Cinia mitgeteilt, dass aus ungeklärten Gründen das Unterwasserkabel "C-Lion1" zwischen Deutschland und Finnland durchtrennt sei. Der Defekt sei am Montag festgestellt worden. Aufgrund der Beschädigung seien die über das Kabel bereitgestellten Dienste unterbrochen. Cinia arbeitet nach eigenen Aussagen mit den finnischen Behörden zusammen, um den Vorfall aufzuklären. Auf einer Pressekonferenz des Unternehmens hieß es, der Vorfall habe sich in schwedischen Gewässern außerhalb der verkehrsreichsten Schifffahrtsgebiete ereignet. Das Kabel sei möglicherweise durch Fremdeinwirkung durchtrennt worden, sagte Cinia-Chef Ari-Jussi Knaapila. Darauf deute der plötzliche Ausfall in der vergangenen Nacht hin. Allerdings stehe die physische Inspektion noch aus. Ein Unternehmenssprecher erklärte gegenüber finnischen Medien, derzeit gebe es keine Möglichkeit, die Schadensursache zu ermitteln. Derartige Kabelbrüche kämen jedoch "in diesen Gewässern nicht ohne äußere Einwirkung vor". Die Betreiberfirma geht demnach davon aus, dass "C-Lion1" durch einen Anker oder ein Grundschleppnetz durchtrennt wurde. Informationen über vorsätzliche Sabotage liegen demnach bislang nicht vor.

Das 1173 Kilometer lange Kabel "C-Lion1" verläuft zwischen Helsinki und Rostock. Es ist das einzige Untersee-Datenkabel, das direkt von Finnland nach Mitteleuropa führt. Es verbindet die Datenzentren Kontinentaleuropas mit denen in Skandinavien. Die Reparatur eines Unterseekabels dauert nach Angaben des Unternehmens üblicherweise zwischen fünf und 15 Tagen. Cinia zufolge muss das Kabel dafür aus dem Meer auf ein Reparaturschiff gehoben werden, das aus dem französischen Calais ins betroffene Gebiet kommen soll.

Das Internet sei von dem Vorfall nicht beeinträchtigt worden, sagte Samuli Bergstrom, Leiter des Zentrums für Cybersicherheit bei der finnischen Verkehrs- und Kommunikationsbehörde (Traficom). Glücklicherweise gebe "mehrere Datenkabelverbindungen zwischen Finnland und dem Ausland, so dass ein einzelner Kabelausfall den Internetverkehr nicht beeinträchtigt", sagte Bergstrom dem Sender Yle. Auch zwischen Litauen und Schweden ist offenbar ein Kommunikationskabel beschädigt worden. Das bestätigte der schwedische Telekommunikationskonzern Telia gegenüber dem litauischen Sender LRT. Der Datenverkehr sei aber nicht dauerhaft beeinträchtigt gewesen. [...]

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more OCs! havent posted my Anivita guys in a while

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dont you love it when class gives you so much motivation to draw bc of how boring it is

idk how i drew this in the last two weeks

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On the morning of Sunday, Nov. 17, an undersea cable connecting Sweden and Lithuania suddenly stopped working. Less than 24 hours later, the only cable connecting Finland and central Europe had been cut, too. Germany’s defense minister, Boris Pistorius, said  on Nov. 19 that the incidents were “probably sabotage.”

Indeed, this was not the first case of suspected sabotage in the Baltic Sea, with the evidence so far pointing to a Chinese merchant vessel with a Russian captain. But while Western governments may be able to identify culprits, avenging the acts is much harder than it seems.

“The cable was cut on Sunday morning, at around 10. The systems immediately reported that we had lost the connection. Further investigation and clarification took place, and it turned out that it was damaged,” Andrius Semeskevicius, the chief technology officer at Telia Lietuva (the Lithuanian arm of the Swedish telecoms giant Telia), told Lithuanian public television on Monday evening.

By then, it was clear that the damage to the communications cable, which connects Lithuania with the strategically vital Swedish Baltic Sea island of Gotland, wasn’t the result of natural ocean movements or even sloppy seafarers or fishers. By the time that Semeskevicius spoke with Lithuanian television, another undersea cable in the Baltic Sea had also been mauled.

The second cable is even more important than the Swedish-Lithuanian one. The C-Lion1, which connects Finland with Germany via the southern tip of Sweden’s Baltic Sea island of Oland, is the only cable providing this connection. (C-Lion1 is owned by the Finnish state-owned firm Cinia Oy.)

At one point, the two cables intersect. And in the early hours of Nov. 18, someone had arrived at the intersection point with apparent intent to harm.

“Here we can see that the cables cross in an area of only 10 square meters—they intersect,” Semeskevicius told Lithuanian television. “Since both are damaged, it is clear that this was not an accidental dropping of one of the ship’s anchors, but something more serious could be going on.”

He’s right. It’s extremely unlikely that the two cables were cut by accident. And almost exactly one year ago, two Baltic Sea undersea cables and one pipeline were damaged during the course of one night. Investigators from Sweden, Finland, and Estonia—in whose exclusive economic zones the damage occurred—soon established that the likely culprit was the Chinese ship called the Newnew Polar Bear, which had dragged its anchor across all three. The container ship is owned in China, flagged in Hong Kong, and had a pioneering journey from Russia to China along the Arctic Northern Sea Route under its belt.

But by the time the investigators decided that they wanted to speak with its crew, it had already sailed out of the Baltic Sea, northward via the Norwegian coast, and onward to the Russian Arctic. Since then, the Chinese government has failed to respond to requests for cooperation in the investigation.

This time too, the culprit appears to be a Chinese merchant vessel. Within hours after the C-Lion1 incident, investigators and hobby sleuths had identified the likely perpetrator: the Chinese-flagged bulk carrier Yi Peng 3. On Nov. 12, the ship had arrived in Russia’s Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga; three days later, it left the port. Two days later the first cable was cut, and then the second.

On the morning of Nov. 19, the Yi Peng 3 was sailing away from the Baltic Sea toward the Atlantic. By the afternoon, it was approaching the Danish Straits—but this time, NATO members’ naval forces were not going to let a suspicious Chinese ship get away. By early evening, as it approached Denmark’s Great Belt strait, it was clear that it was being followed by the Royal Danish Navy, which also has coast guard duties. Ships from the Swedish Navy and Coast Guard were also nearby, on the Swedish side.

Later that evening, the Yi Peng 3 appeared to be leaving Danish waters and sailing north toward Sweden and Norway and onward to the Atlantic Ocean. But then it stopped. At noon today, the bulk carrier was still in the same spot, squarely between the Danish and Swedish coasts in the southern part of the Kattegat Strait.

To get to the Atlantic, the ship still needs to pass through the rest of the Kattegat. At the time of writing, it remains unclear why it had stopped. Open-source intelligence sleuths report that Danish officials have detained it, though the Danish Armed Forces have said only that they’re present in the area near the ship. Will Danish and Swedish investigators (and German, Finnish, and Lithuanian ones) try to forcibly board the ship?

But if Western navy and coast guard ships manage to keep the Yi Peng 3 in the Kattegat, what would they do? They could try to board the ship, yes, but what exactly would they do then?

Under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, signatories agree to protect undersea installations in their waters. But the treaty—known as the “constitution of the oceans”—doesn’t specify what coastal states should do if aggressive-minded rival countries use nonmilitary vessels to sabotage infrastructure in their waters.

Indeed, the brilliant minds that negotiated the convention may not have considered the possibility of signatories using criminal activity to score geopolitical points against other countries. Investigators are pursuing a criminal case against the Yi Peng 3’s crew, but the case is about much more than criminal actions by a single ship’s crew. The Chinese government, meanwhile, has denied that anything is amiss, telling the NTB news agency that Chinese vessels obey maritime law.

This is the dilemma for the Baltic Sea countries (NATO’s dominance there notwithstanding) and other Western nations: Russia, China, and other countries can use private outfits, criminals, and sundry other collaborators to harm them, and it may never be possible to establish a link between the perpetrators and the governments on whose behalf harmful acts were committed.

Even if the Danish Navy boards the vessel, we’ll likely never know what conversations the Yi Peng 3’s owner, or its shipmaster, have had with the governments of Russia or China. We’ll also never know what conversations took place before a Chinese cargo vessel and a Chinese fishing boat cut the two undersea cables that connect Taiwan’s Matsu Islands with Taiwan proper in February last year.

We simply know that even though the cables are easily found on navigational charts and thus should have been easy to avoid, the two vessels cut them, thus disconnecting the Matsu Island residents from the rest of the world. (And no, a Chinese merchant vessel would not sabotage undersea infrastructure on any government’s behalf without permission from Beijing.)

As for the Yi Peng 3, we know only that it left Ust-Luga bound for Egypt’s Port Said and likely cut two crucial cables so badly that they stopped working. The ship’s crew did so even though the cables’ locations are precisely mapped, and even though a normal merchant crew could have been expected to be extra careful in light of the damage caused by the Newnew Polar Bear last year, if that damage was indeed an accident.

We also know that Russian federal port records show the Yi Peng 3 being captained by a Russian. Given that Russia is one of the world’s top five sources of seafarers, especially officers, a Russian shipmaster is not unusual. But having a Russian shipmaster rather than, say, an Indian or Romanian, certainly makes sabotage in the Baltic Sea a bit more straightforward.

After the suspected sabotage, the Yi Peng 3 sailed off toward the Atlantic even though the NATO ships were in pursuit.

“It’s a very clear sign that something is going on. Nobody believes that these cables were cut by mistake, and I’m not going to believe the theory that it was anchors that were accidentally dragged across these cables,” Pistorius, the German defense minister, said on Nov. 19, adding: “We have to assume, without knowing precisely from whom it stems, that this an act of hybrid aggression, and we have to assume that it’s a case of sabotage.”

Around the same time, the foreign ministers of Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, and Poland made similar observations: “Moscow’s escalating hybrid activities against NATO and EU countries are also unprecedented in their variety and scale, creating significant security risks,” they said in a statement.

Pistorius is right. Considering the evidence, concluding that the incidents were an act of sabotage is common sense. That raises the question of what to do about it. After the Newnew Polar Bear damaged the cables and the pipeline, NATO similarly monitored its journey out of the Baltic Sea, along the Norwegian coast, and into Arctic waters. What would the militaries involved have done if it had stopped and allowed them to board?

If they had failed to board the Newnew Polar Bear, the public in Western countries would have complained of NATO cowardice. But if they had boarded, China and Russia would have retaliated, despite claiming that they have no connection with the cargo ship. The same acute dilemma now faces the Danish authorities watching the Yi Peng 3.

For the moment, NATO and its member states will continue to monitor threats to undersea infrastructure. These days, the military alliance even has a Critical Undersea Infrastructure Network. Owners and operators of cables, pipelines, and other sea-based infrastructure are anxiously monitoring, too.

But the next time that saboteurs arrive—and they will—NATO’s navies will face the same painful question. The myriad pipelines, and especially communications cables, were products of our harmonious globalized age. Now they’re the new front line.

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The newspaper said the Global Connect fiber optic network suffered a massive failure in Finland

HELSINKI, December 3. /TASS/. A telecom cable of the Global Connect company has ruptured between Sweden and Finland. Swedish Civil Defense Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin stated that Finnish police suspected sabotage. Subsequently, it was determined that the break was caused by excavation works.

TASS has put together the key facts about the incident.

Circumstances of the cable severance

- The Helsingin Sanomat newspaper reported a telecom cable rupture between Sweden and Finland that occurred in Finland last night.

- According to the report, the Finnish police suspected a deliberate attack and informed the Swedish authorities.

- The Helsingin Sanomat said the Global Connect fiber optic network suffered a massive failure in Finland.

- According to Global Connect's website, the company grappled with "isolated outages" in its fiber-optic network, which followed damage to cables in two locations.

- The Swedish government said it is monitoring developments around the incident in Finland.

- Swedish Civil Defense Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin stated that the Finnish police are investigating the incident and suspect a sabotage attack, given the circumstances.

- Finnish police said they were not conducting a criminal investigation into the cable damage.

Causes of the damage

- The cable was damaged by an excavator during excavation work, said Jaakko Wallenius, director of security at telecom operator Elisa.

- According to the executive, the Global Connect's cable suffered damage in two locations in Finland, in the towns of Espoo and Vihti.

- Wallenius ruled out the theory of sabotage, insisting it was an accident. He said repairs finished on Tuesday morning.

Previous incidents

- Two underwater cables were damaged under the Baltic Sea on November 17 and 18. One connected Germany and Finland, and the other Sweden and Lithuania.

- The first cable runs along the Nord Stream pipeline. Its failure was reported by the Finnish government-owned telecom operator Cinia.

- The damage to the second cable was later reported by the Swedish telecom company Telia.

- According to the MarineTraffic ship tracking service, the China-flagged ship Yi Peng 3 was close to the spot where the cable between Sweden and Lithuania was severed. The same ship later moved across the area where the C-Lion1 cable between Germany and Finland was damaged.

- Finnish Defense Minister Antti Hakkanen said on November 19 that governments in the Baltic Sea region learned from the mistakes of the investigation into the damage to the Balticconnector pipeline and are ready to stop any ship if it is suspected of damaging data cables.

- The Danish Navy later confirmed its presence near the Yi Peng 3, but would not comment on reports of it being stopped or detained.

- The damage was repaired at the end of last week.

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Hamish Fulton, Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia. Jean-Marc Manson, 2016

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Finland boards oil tanker suspected of cutting off internet, power cable

Finnish authorities seized a vessel in the Baltic Sea on suspicion of disconnecting an underwater power cable connecting Finland and Estonia and damaging four internet lines.

The Cook Islands-registered vessel, Eagle S, was arrested on Thursday, 26 December, by the Finnish Coast Guard, Robin Lardot, director of the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation, reported.

From our side we are investigating grave sabotage. According to our understanding, an anchor of the vessel that is under investigation has caused the damage.

Two fibre-optic cables owned by Finnish operator Elisa and linking Finland and Estonia were severed. The third link between the two countries, belonging to the Chinese company Citic, was also damaged.

The fourth internet cable running between Finland and Germany, owned by Finnish group Cinia, is also suspected to have been severed. The incident highlighted the need for close international co-operation, with the US and NATO expressing their readiness to support the Finnish-Estonian investigation.

The two countries held extraordinary meetings to assess the situation on Thursday, according to separate statements. The Baltic Sea states are on high alert for potential acts of sabotage after a series of cable disruptions since 2022.

Repairs to the 170-kilometre Estlink 2 interconnector would take several months, with the outage raising the risk of power outages in winter, operator Fingrid said. Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal, however, emphasised that the country would have sufficient access to electricity.

The Eagle S Panamax oil tanker crossed the Estlink 2 electric cable on Wednesday. Damage to underwater facilities in the Baltic Sea became so frequent that it was hard to believe that it had been caused by a mere accident, Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said.

We must understand that damage to submarine infrastructure has become more systematic and thus must be regarded as attacks against our vital structures.

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys also said that the growing number of incidents in the Baltic Sea should serve as a warning to NATO and the European Union to step up protection of underwater infrastructure in the region.

The Nord Stream pipeline from Russia to Germany, which runs along the seabed in the same waters, was blown up in 2022. The case is still under investigation in Germany.

Read more HERE

[financepulse]

$CINIA: Cinia Oy encounters negative impact as its Finland-Germany data link suffers damage in the recent subsea infrastructure incident.

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Sospechas de "sabotaje" tras el corte de dos cables de telecomunicaciones en el Báltico

Podemos confirmar que la interrupción de internet no se debió a un fallo de los equipos, sino a daños materiales en el cable de fibra óptica...

Agencias Dos cables de telecomunicaciones en el mar Báltico sufrieron daños en un lapso de 48 horas, levantando sospechas de que se trate de un sabotaje ruso. El C-Lion1, un cable submarino de 1.172 km que conecta Finlandia y Alemania a través del Báltico fue cortado el lunes indicó su operador, el grupo tecnológico finlandés Cinia. La policía finlandesa está investigando lo sucedido, pero…

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Подводные интернет-кабели уязвимы – им готовят альтернативу

New Post has been published on https://er10.kz/read/it-novosti/podvodnye-internet-kabeli-ujazvimy-im-gotovjat-alternativu/

Подводные интернет-кабели уязвимы – им готовят альтернативу

Недавние инциденты с диверсиями, в результате которых были повреждены подводные интернет-кабели, показывает, насколько уязвимы современные коммуникации. В качестве альтернативы, американские и европейские компании хотят создать динамическую маршрутизацию через космос.

Интернет-кабели в Балтийском море, вероятно, стали целью диверсии. Об этом говорят специалисты. Кабель протяженностью 218 км  между Литвой и шведским островом Готланд был поврежден в воскресенье. Другой кабель, соединяющий Хельсинки и Росток в Германии, вышел из строя в понедельник. Их ремонт, как ожидается, займет до 15 дней.

Широко распространено мнение, что причиной инцидентов является саботаж со стороны спецслужб или террористов. Подобные опасения вызывает и последняя атака: представитель финского сетевого оператора Cinia заявил, что обрыв определенно был вызван внешним воздействием, а все оптоволоконные соединения в кабеле перерезаны.

– Тот факт, что подобный инцидент сразу же вызывает подозрения в намеренном нанесении ущерба, говорит о нестабильности нашего времени. Ведется тщательное расследование, – говорится в совместном заявлении министров иностранных дел Финляндии и Германии.

Учитывая наличие других кабельных маршрутов, ожидается, что на этот раз инциденты не повлияют на интернет-трафик. Однако они вызывают вопросы о безопасности кабельной инфраструктуры в будущем.

Существуют меры по повышению устойчивости коммуникаций с помощью спутникового интернета. В настоящей момент консорциум Hybrid Space/Submarine Architecture Ensuring Infosec of Telecommunications (HEIST) работает над системой, которая будет перенаправлять трафик через спутники в случае сбоев в работе подводных интернет-кабелей.

– Вместе с нашими отраслевыми партнерами, включая SpaceX, Viasat и SES, мы стремимся создать динамическую и устойчивую маршрутизацию для подводных кабелей, чтобы то, что только что произошло в Финляндии, не стало причиной повсеместных сбоев, – отмечается в заявлении консорциума.

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2024年11月19日 10時49分 フィンランドとドイツを結ぶ海底ケーブルが破損、何者かによる破壊工作の可能性が浮上するも原因は不明

通信会社のCiniaが2024年11月18日、フィンランド・ヘルシンキとドイツ・ロストックを結ぶ約1200kmの海底ケーブルが切断されたことを発表しました。これを受け、フィンランド政府とドイツ政府は共同で「徹底的な調査が進行中です」と述べています。

A fault in the Cinia C-Lion1 submarine cable between Finland and Germany https://www.cinia.fi/en/news/a-fault-in-the-cinia-c-lion1-submarine-cable-between-finland-and-germany

Undersea cable between Lithuania and Sweden damaged – Telia - LRT https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2416006/undersea-cable-between-lithuania-and-sweden-damaged-telia

Joint statement by the Foreign Ministers of Finland and Germany on the severed undersea cable in the Baltic Sea - Federal Foreign Office

https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/newsroom/news/-/2685132

Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea cut, Germany and Finland fear sabotage | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/telecoms-cable-linking-finland-germany-likely-severed-owner-says-2024-11-18/

Germany and Finland investigate a severed data cable through the Baltic Sea | AP News https://apnews.com/article/finland-germany-data-communications-cable-9b231aa47501545690a26a442fe106a5

Two Baltic Subsea Cables Likely Severed by "Outside Forces" https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/two-baltic-subsea-cables-likely-severed-by-outside-forces

フィンランドの国営データサービスプロバイダーであるCiniaは2024年11月18日に、ヘルシンキからロストックを結ぶ約1200kmの海底ケーブル「C-Lion1」の切断が確認されたことを発表。フィンランドの公共放送であるYLEによると、2016年にサービスを開始したC-Lion1は北欧の国々から直接中央ヨーロッパまで���るフィンランドで唯一のデータ通信ケーブルで、中央ヨーロッパの通信ネットワークをフィンランドやその他の北欧諸国に接続しているとのこと。

Ciniaは今回のケーブル切断により、C-Lion1で提供されていたサービスがダウンしていることを明らかにしているほか、フィンランドの国際的なデータ通信接続は複数の冗長回線を介して伝送することで保護されており、1本のケーブル障害の影響はサービスプロバイダーの接続の回復力に左右されることを報告しました。

また、リトアニアとスウェーデンのゴットランド島を結ぶ218kmの海底ケーブルも停止し、インターネット回線がダウンしていることを、リトアニアのデータサービスプロバイダーであるTelia Lietuvaが報告しています。Telia Lietuvaによると、故障の性質上、今回のインターネット回線の切断は海底ケーブルの物理的な損傷が原因とのこと。

C-Lion1が設置されているバルト海では、これまでにもパイプラインの爆発とガス漏れが発生しているほか、海底ケーブルの損傷が発生しており、これらはロシアによる破壊工作である可能性が指摘されています。

損傷して引き上げられた海底ケーブルの画像をノルウェー警察が公開、ロシアのトロール船の関与が疑われるも証拠不足 - GIGAZINE

今回のC-Lion1の破損も悪質な人物による破壊工作である可能性が指摘されており、フィンランド外務省ならびにドイツ外務省は共同で「今回のように、ケーブルの損傷がすぐに意図的な損害の疑いを提起するという事実は、現代の不安定さを示しています。私たちヨーロッパの国々は、ロシアによるウクライナ侵攻と悪意を持った攻撃者によるハイブリッド戦争の脅威にさらされています。私たちは今回のケーブル切断について徹底的な調査を実施しています。私たちが共有する重要なインフラを保護することは、私たちの安全にとって不可欠です」との声明を発表しました。

一方で、フィンランド国家サイバーセキュリティセンターのディレクターであるサムリ・バーグストローム氏は「海底のケーブルは常にあらゆる気象条件や船舶の影響にさらされています。海底ケーブルは継続的にさまざまなメンテナンスを受けていますが、今回のケーブル切断が偶発的なものである可能性もあります」と語っています。

Ciniaのアリ＝ユッシ・クナアピラCEOは記者団に対し「今回のケーブルの損傷は、スウェーデンのオーランド島の南端近くで発生しました。我々は障害の詳細について調査中で、修理船を出港させる準備を始めています。ケーブルの修理には5日～15日を要する可能性があります」と述べています。

(フィンランドとドイツを結ぶ海底ケーブルが破損、何者かによる破壊工作の可能性が浮上するも原因は不明 - GIGAZINEから)

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Rússia é acusada de sabotagem após rompimento de cabo submarino na Europa

Autoridades europeias estão investigando o que causou o rompimento de um cabo submarino da empresa finlandesa de segurança cibernética e de redes de telecomunicações Cinia. O C-Lion1, que possui 1.173 mil quilômetros e atravessa o Mar Báltico desde a capital Helsinque (Finlândia) até o porto de Rostock (Alemanha), simplesmente parou de funcionar. Mas mesmo antes de um anúncio oficial do motivo da…

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It was reported on Monday that two telecommunications cables running along the bottom of the Baltic Sea had been damaged.

First, a break in the C-Lion1 submarine cable between Finland and Germany was reported by its owner, Cinia. Later on Monday, the Lithuanian public broadcaster LRT also reported damage to a submarine cable between Lithuania and Sweden.

Helsingin Sanomat notes that the Finnish and German foreign ministers issued a joint statement on Monday evening expressing their "deep concern" about the incident.

"The fact that such an event immediately raises suspicions of intentional damage says a lot about the instability of our times," the statement said.

It added that European security is threatened by malicious actors engaging in hybrid warfare.

Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen (NCP) told HS that she was following the situation closely.

"We don't know what is going on yet, and I'm not going to speculate on it yet," she told the paper.

Valtonen pointed out that the EU and Nato have already taken action to prepare for hybrid attacks, including protecting critical infrastructure.

Suspicions of sabotage

Helsingin Sanomat reports speculation that the damage to the two telecom cables in the Baltic Sea was probably caused by the same action.

Tapio Frantti, Professor of Cyber Security at the University of Jyväskylä and former Research Professor of Network Technology at VTT, told HS that if this had been the result of an accident, it would certainly have been reported.

According to Frantti, the damage to the cables strongly suggests deliberate action.

Audrius Stasiulaitis of the telecom operator Telia Lietuva confirmed to HS that the disruption in the connection between Sweden and Lithuania was not an equipment failure, but a physical fault in the fibre cable.

Ilta-Sanomat notes that Tampere University researcher Dr Pekka Kallioniemi made a posting on the messaging service X already on Friday saying that he believes the Kremlin is preparing to carry out massive sabotage operations on underwater internet cables.

Kallioniemi told IS that Russia has long been mapping critical infrastructure in waterways and that he was "not surprised at all" by Monday's news.

The economic and business daily Kauppalehti is among the papers reporting that Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen stated that if the damage to the cables turns out to have been the result of sabotage by a foreign state, the identity of the entity responsible will be made public.

"If it is a state action, it will be taken as an attack on a democratically free society," the paper quotes Valtonen as saying.

Loviisa 2 offline

Power production at the number 2 unit of Fortum's Loviisa nuclear power plant was suspended at around 9pm on Monday evening, reports Ilta-Sanomat. The cause is a malfunction in the reactor auxiliary system and the exact cause of the failure is being investigated, Fortum said in a press release quoted by the paper.

IS also points to an update on the Nord Pool power exchange web site made overnight stating the earliest date for the return to normal electricity production would be Thursday evening.

On Sunday, it was reported that production at Olkiluoto nuclear power plant's unit 3 reactor was also interrupted. According to the operator TVO, repairs there will take longer than previously expected.

New TV channel line-up

The channel positions for terrestrial television broadcasts received by antenna households change on Tuesday. High-definition (HD) channels will move to the top of the channel listings and basic digital TV channels further down the list.

STT news agency reports carried by the Uutissuomalainen news group remind viewers that change is taking place on the terrestrial TV network between 10am and 3pm, which means that there may be interruptions to TV broadcasts throughout Finland during the day.

High-definition channels will now be in positions 1-20, while basic DTV channels will move to positions 21-39.

If you are unable to watch any of the channels you are familiar with after the change in channel numbering, you should scan the channels on your set. Some TVs do this automatically.

The report suggests that for instructions on how to check if your TV is ready for high definition reception and how to scan for channels, one can find further information from the HDTV Guide provided by the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom.

By 2025, basic digital TV channels will cease broadcasting in Finland altogether.

According to Traficom, the vast majority of Finns already have a high-definition TV sets. High-definition channels should be displayed correctly immediately, or after channel scanning.

If you still have a TV set that does not have a HD receiver, following Tuesday's change, the basic DTV channels will appear on channels 21-39.

A complete switch-over to high definition broadcasts is scheduled for next year.

Traffic snarls, downed trees

Iltalehti tells readers to expect a storm moving into Finland on Wednesday to create "traffic chaos"

Finnish Meteorological Institute meteorologist Tuomo Bergman says in a release that strong winds will pile up snowdrifts, and driving conditions will become very bad across the country starting Wednesday evening.

These difficult driving conditions are expected to cause widespread disruption, especially to morning traffic on Thursday.

In addition to road traffic, heavy snow will affect rail and air traffic.

Maaseudun Tulevaisuus points to the likelihood of high winds knocking down trees, as did last weekend's storm that cut power supplies to well over 40,000 households.

Since the ground is not yet solidly frozen, trees are more easily uprooted by winter storms.

MST writes that according to the current forecast, most damage to forests is expected in the central parts of the country. Short power cuts are also a possibility.

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