INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Finnish authorities said Monday that a Russian telecommunications cable in the Baltic Sea was discovered damaged in October, roughly
coinciding with damage to subsea infrastructure in Sweden and Finland."The Russian salvage vessel Spasatel Karev began to repair
Rostelecom's Baltika telecommunications cable in the Gulf of Finland on Nov
6," Finland's economic affairs ministry said in a statement.The ministry was informed of the damage to the Baltika telecommunications cable
8.The Swedish government also said in October that a telecommunication cable linking the Scandinavian country to Estonia was damaged at the
Petersburg to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, needed rapid repairs to ensure services in the region.Finnish police said in October it
believed the damage to the Balticconnector pipeline was caused by an anchor recovered at the site of the damage, likely belonging to a
waters.Finland's Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said the Nordic country was working with Beijing to find out more about the ship.Last year,
Russia at a time of heightened tensions between Moscow and the West over the war in Ukraine.The cause of that sabotage remains unknown.
