On Monday, an undersea data cable connecting Germany and Finland was cut.
On Tuesday, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said the damage was no accident.
The cable is called C-Lion1 and it runs 728 miles between Helsinki and Rockstock.
This picture taken on October 12, 2015 shows the C-Lion1 submarine telecommunications cable being laid to the bottom of the Baltic Sea by cable laying ship “Ile de Brehat” off the shore of Helsinki, Finland.© Photo by HEIKKI SAUKKOMAA/Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty Images
Its buried 3 feet into the seabed and would have been difficult to cut by accident.
When it was laid down in 2016, itbroke data speed records.
Now its in pieces on the sea floor.
The Baltic Sea has been a flashpoint since Russia escalated its long-running war in Ukraine in 2022.
On Sunday morning a different cable running from Lithuania to Swedens Gotland Island sustained damage.
In 2022, theNord Stream Pipelinewhich carried natural gas between Russia and Europemysteriously exploded.
Russia is systematically attacking European security architecture, the declaration said.
They abandoned it in the past few years, joining NATO after watching Russias invasion of Ukraine.
The site covers everything from pandemics to war.
The 32-page book, which is alsoavailable online, details whats required of a citizen should anyone ever invade.
On Tuesday,Russia publisheda long-promised document detailing its lowered threshold for using nuclear weapons.
Putin first teased the nuclear policy change in September at a meeting of the Russian Security Council.
Putin outlined three new scenarios in which Russia might use nuclear weapons.
One of them is an attack by a non-nuclear state against Russia with the help of a nuclear-armed state.
It is so broad and detailed that one has to wonder what it means.
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