Source: Politico
“Swedish investigators have found that bad weather, deficient equipment and poor seamanship were responsible for the latest Baltic Sea cable disruption — not sabotage. Senior prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist, from Sweden’s National Security Unit, said in a statement Monday that the vessel that broke an undersea fiber optic cable between Latvia and Sweden on Jan. 26 ‘clearly’ did not do so as an act of sabotage. … The cut was the latest in a recent spate of incidents involving damage to subsea energy and data cables that has prompted NATO to ramp up its work on detecting and stopping attacks against infrastructure in the Baltic Sea.” (02/03/25)
https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-baltic-sea-cable-cut-not-sabotage