Ministers of Defence of Lithuania and Sweden offered commentary on the cable incident in the Baltic Sea from the EU Ministerial in Brussels.
“If the investigations will reveal that there is a country to blame for severing the telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea, the European Union and member states must put sanctions up against the destabilizing sabotage on critical infrastructure,” said Minister of National Defence Laurynas Kasčiūnas.
Institutions of both countries have already opened a thorough investigation into circumstances of the cable disruption between Lithuania and Sweden.
“We need to stay vigilant as the security situation in our neighborhood is deteriorating. We are currently working closely to attain as much clarity on the incident in the Baltic Sea as possible,” said Minister of Defence of Sweden Pal Jonson.
Lithuania has stepped up surveillance of the territorial sea and exclusive economic zone and conducts assessment of further actions in collaborations with the Allies (done by the Lithuanian Navy). According to primary data, the disrupted cable was outside of Lithuania’s territorial sea and exclusive economic zone.
The Finnish telecommunications provider Cinia reported on Monday that the cable connecting Helsinki and Germany’s Rostock Port had been cut in unclear circumstances. In the meanwhile, Telia Lietuva AB telecommunications company whose main shareholder is Sweden reported a disruption of one of its three cables connecting Lithuania and Sweden via the Baltic Sea that happened on Sunday.
