The cable is called C-Lion1 and it runs 728 miles between Helsinki and Rockstock. It’s buried 3 feet into the seabed and would have been difficult to cut by accident. When it was laid down in 2016, it broke data speed records. The cable, just by itself, could enable everyone in Finland to jump on a 25Mbps internet connection at the same time.

Two telecommunications cables cut in the Baltic Sea in 48 hours prompted European officials to say Tuesday that they suspect "sabotage" and "hybrid warfare" linked to Russia's invasion of Ukraine."Our European security is not only under threat from Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine,

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius announced on Tuesday that the damage to two underwater fiber-optic communication cables in the Baltic Sea is considered an act of sabotage, even though the perpetrators remain unknown.