Damage to a telecommunications cable between Finland and Germany laid on the bottom of the Baltic Sea indicates it was sabotage, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said.
“It’s a very clear signal (cable break – ed.) that something is going on there. Nobody believes that these cables were accidentally cut and I don’t want to believe in versions that it was anchors that accidentally damaged these cables,” Boris Pistorius told a news conference in Brussels.
The minister said Finland and Germany did not yet have “any evidence” but that it “looks like sabotage”.
“Therefore, without knowing who exactly is behind it, we have to state that this is a hybrid action, and we have to proceed from that. Not yet knowing, understandably, that we are talking about sabotage,” he said.
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