“We can confirm that the internet traffic disruption was not caused by equipment failure but by physical damage to the fiber optic cable.”
Two Baltic cables went down within a day of each other, about 60 miles apart. One carried roughly a third of Lithuania’s internet capacity, and the other, C-Lion, is Finland’s only direct link to Central Europe. Finland and Germany are already saying “hybrid warfare” while Sweden and Finland mail out booklets on surviving a war. Cutting a cable on the seabed is cheap, deniable and slow to fix.