Two telecommunications cables running through the Baltic Sea were damaged in what Germany called an act of 'sabotage.'

Pistorius said that “nobody believes these cables were severed by accident,” and he thinks anchors dropped from ships wouldn’t damage the cables like this. He claimed it was sabotage, but admitted he doesn’t yet have solid proof for this assertion.

The C-Lion1 cable between Finland and Germany was severed in the Baltic Sea, its operator said, after damage was reported to another cable linking Lithuania and Sweden.

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has said damage to two undersea cables in the Baltic Sea looks like an act of sabotage and a "hybrid action", without knowing who is to blame. A 1,170km (730-mile) telecommunications cable between Finland and Germany was severed in the early hours of Monday,

Germany’s defense minister told reporters in Brussels that the severing of two communication cables in the Baltic Sea was likely sabotage. One of the cables connected Finland and Germany; it is the latest incident in a series of incidents involving undersea cables in the body of water.