Damage to underwater cables was 'sabotage', German defence minister says

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Two underwater fibre-optic communications cables running between Finland and Germany were discovered cut on Monday, an incident both countries said was under investigation.

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00:00Damage done to two underwater data transmission cables running between Germany and Finland

00:07was deliberate, according to the German defense minister.

00:12His comments come after the two countries announced they discovered a severed fiber

00:16optic undersea cable and that an investigation was underway.

00:21The incident is not the first to involve damage

00:49to underwater infrastructure in the Baltic Sea.

00:53Over the weekend, a different cable between Lithuania and Sweden reportedly lost service.

01:00Countries involved in both incidents said Russia, often considered responsible for acts

01:04of hybrid warfare, could be at least partially to blame.

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