Important Takeaways:

• Two subsea telecoms cables in the Baltic Sea have been damaged in a suspected act of Russian sabotage, highlighting the fragility of the world’s data networks.
• A 730-mile (1,170km) C-Lion1 cable carrying data between Germany and Finland was severed on Monday.
• Meanwhile, a 135-mile (218km) internet link between Lithuania and Sweden’s Gotland Island stopped working on Sunday, according to Sweden’s Telia Group.
• “No one believes that the cables were accidentally damaged,” said Boris Pistorius, Germany’s defense minister.
• “We have to assume, without certain information, that the damage is caused by sabotage.”
• Germany and Finland said they were “deeply concerned” by the damage to the C-Lion1 cable, which is run by Finnish state-controlled cyber security and telecoms company Cinia.
• “Our European security is not only under threat from Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine but also from hybrid warfare by malicious actors,” a joint statement read.
• The economic damage caused by the loss of data services from a cable is difficult to estimate, but according to a recent report by Gallagher, it can quickly reach billions of dollars.
• The incident is the latest in a series of mysterious disruptions to undersea cables that have been linked to Russia.
• It comes amid deepening tensions with the West over the Ukraine war.

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