‘Shadow fleets’ and subaquatic sabotage: are Europe’s undersea internet cables under attack?

Europe is on high alert after a series of outages to cables and pipelines. This visual guide explains what happened and what’s being done.

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#Europe #Sabotage #UnderseaCables #BalticSea #Russia #ShadowFleet #Estlink #Balticconnector #Internet #Pipelines #Energy #Electricity #Finland #Estonia #Lithuania #Latvia #Sweden #Denmark #Germany #Poland #Nato #BalticSentry

Crew on board an #Eagle_S oil tanker accused of sabotaging cables in the #Baltic_Sea were poised to cut other cables and pipelines - #Reuters

The head of the investigation, #Risto_Lohi of the National Bureau of Investigation, said the vessel was threatening to cut a second power cable, #Estlink_1, and the #BalticConnector gas pipe between Finland and #Estonia at the time it was seized.

Das Stromübertragungskabel #Eastlink2 und die Erdgaspipeline #Balticconnector zwischen #Finnland und #Estland sowie weitere Kommunikationskabel auch zwischen #Helsinki und #Rostock wurden zerstört - allem Anschein nach durch #Russland.

Wir als #EU🇪🇺 müssen diese Angriffe auf unsere #kritischeInfrastruktur endlich ernst nehmen und entschlossen auftreten!

The #Eastlink2 electricity transmission cable and the #Balticconnector natural gas pipeline between #Finland and #Estonia, as well as other communication cables between #Helsinki and #Rostock, have been destroyed - apparently by #Russia.

We as the #EU🇪🇺 must finally take these attacks on our #criticalinfrastructure seriously and act decisively!