Germany suspects sabotage over severed undersea cables in Baltic
Germany suspects sabotage over severed undersea cables in Baltic
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Bu içerikte, Baltık Denizi’nde gerçekleşen iki denizaltı kablosunun hasar görmesi olayı ele alınmaktadır. Almanya Savunma Bakanı Boris Pistorius, Finlandiya ile Almanya arasındaki 1,170 km’lik bir iletişim kablosunun Pazartesi günü kesildiğini ve Litvanya ile İsveç Gotland Adası arasındaki 218 km’lik bir internet bağlantısının Pazar günü çalışmayı durdurduğunu belirtmiştir. Bu olaylar, Rusya ile artan gerilimli bir dönemde meydana gelmiş olup, Pistorius “hiç kimsenin bu kabloların kazara kesildiğine inanmadığını” ifade etmiştir. Baltık boru hatlarını içeren bir dizi olay, Rusya’nın Ukrayna’ya tam ölçekli işgalinden bu yana sabotaj korkularını artırmıştır. Finlandiya ve Almanya, C-Lion1 iletişim kablosunun kesilmesinden derin endişe duyduklarını belirtmiş ve Avrupa’nın güvenliğinin Rusya’nın savaşıyla değil, “kötü niyetli aktörler tarafından hibrit savaşla” tehdit edildiğini ifade etmişlerdir. Olaylarla ilgili soruşturmalar devam etmektedir ve hasarın tamir edilmesi birkaç hafta sürebilir.
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The undersea cable between Helsinki and Rostock was laid in 2015
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has said damage to two undersea cables in the Baltic Sea looks like an act of sabotage and a “hybrid action”, without knowing who is to blame.
A 1,170km (730-mile) telecommunications cable between Finland and Germany was severed in the early hours of Monday, while a 218km internet link between Lithuania and Sweden’s Gotland Island stopped working on Sunday.
The incidents came at a time of heightened tension with Russia and Pistorius said “nobody believes that these cables were cut accidentally”.
A series of incidents involving Baltic pipelines have heightened fears of sabotage since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Germany and Finland have both said they are “deeply concerned” by the severing of the C-Lion1 communications cable, adding that Europe’s security is threatened by Russia’s war, “but also from hybrid warfare by malicious actors”.
Finnish telecoms and cyber security firm Cinia said its cable may have been severed “by an outside force”. “These kinds of breaks don’t happen in these waters without an outside impact,” a spokesperson told local media.
Cinia’s chief executive said the damage had taken place close to Sweden’s Oland Island and could take five to 15 days to repair.
On Tuesday, Finland said it had opened a police probe, while the Swedish Prosecution Authority said it had opened an investigation into “sabotage” .
“The preliminary investigation is ongoing and at an early stage. There is no further information to share about the investigation at this time,” prosecutor Henrik Soderman said in a statement.
The two cables intersect in the Baltic although the damage is thought to have taken place elsewhere. Arelion, the company that operates the line to Lithuania, has not said where its cable was cut but expects the repair to take a couple of weeks.
Swedish civil defence minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin said it was “absolutely central” to find out why two cables were not working. About a fifth of Lithuania’s internet capacity has been reduced, although consumers are understood not to be affected.
Arelion spokesman Martin Sjogren told the BBC that cables in the Baltic did get damaged every now and then.
“Fishing vessels accidentally damage cables with anchors,” he said. “The timing is odd of course but we haven’t been able to examine it so we don’t know what caused it.”
Samuli Bergstrom, a Finnish government cybersecurity expert, said the failure of the cable from Finland to Germany had not affected internet traffic as other cable routes were available.
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