A Chinese cargo ship that has docked in Russian ports appears to have been detained on suspicion of cutting undersea cables between European countries earlier this week.
All data transmission between Finland and central Europe was lost on Monday after a 745-mile cable named C-Lion, which links Helsinki with Rostock in northern Germany, was severed in the Baltic Sea.
A second 135-mile internet link between Lithuania and the Swedish island of Gotland, the BCS East-West Interlink, went out of service at about 8am on Sunday, according to the Lithuanian telecoms operator Telia Lietuva, which is part of the Swedish Telia Company.
Boris Pistorius, the German defence minister, said that the incidents may have been an act of “hybrid” warfare or “sabotage”.
Finnish police confirmed