Damage caused to a pair of undersea communications cables in the Baltic Sea is likely to have been an act of sabotage, Germany’s defence minister has said.
Boris Pistorius said it was unclear who was responsible for what he described as a “hybrid” warfare tactic after the severing of two fibre optic cables within 24 hours — one between Germany and Finland and another between Sweden and Lithuania.
But he added: “No one believes that these cables were cut accidentally . . . Therefore we have to state, without knowing specifically who it came from, that it is a ‘hybrid’ action. And we also have to assume, without knowing it yet, that it is sabotage.”
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