Finland says Russian Baltic Sea telecoms cable also damaged

A Russian subsea telecoms cable in the Baltic Sea suffered an outage last month and is now undergoing repairs by Russia, the Finnish economy ministry said on Monday. It was not immediately clear if the Russian outage was linked to the earlier incidents.

A Russian subsea telecoms cable in the Baltic Sea suffered an outage last month and is now undergoing repairs by Russia, the Finnish economy ministry said on Monday. The 1,000 kilometre (620 miles) cable belonging to state-owned Rostelecom runs from the region of St. Petersburg to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad in the southern Baltic Sea.

A gas pipeline linking Finland and Estonia and two other telecoms cables, connecting Estonia to Finland and Sweden, were also damaged last month. It was not immediately clear if the Russian outage was linked to the earlier incidents. The Finnish border guard said on Monday it was monitoring a Russian salvage ship that was undertaking repairs to the cable in Finland's economic zone.