Maintenance in progress

finnish investigators found a dragline more than ten kilometres long on the baltic seabed and suspect a turkish-flagged vessel of dragging its anchor across the estonia-finland telecommunications cable severed on december 31. this lands as european analysts document 150-200 cable disruptions a year and warn the continent's undersea infrastructure is exposed to deliberate hybrid sabotage. a physical evidence trail this long is rare — the ambiguity between accident and sabotage is the recurring feature of these incidents.

nordic investigation and european infrastructure analysis