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The undersea Estlink-2 power cable linking Finland and Estonia experienced an outage on Wednesday, prompting an investigation, Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo announced.

Authorities stated the disruption will not affect electricity supplies in Finland or Estonia.

Concerns are heightened due to recent incidents involving undersea infrastructure in the Baltic, including severed data cables in November and the 2022 sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines.

The cause of the Estlink-2 outage remains unclear.

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[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 63 points 6 months ago (3 children)

When will the world deal with Putin properly?

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 42 points 6 months ago

When his candidate elect causes a recession in the US, triggering a global recession, causing the energy market to retract, affecting his ability to pay his window cleaners, causing him to take a terrible fall out of one when attempting to clean them himself

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago

Bomb the shit out of the russian military and enegy sector by flooding Ukraine with weapons.

[–] albert180@discuss.tchncs.de 57 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] mercphilby@discuss.online 27 points 6 months ago

Via a Chinese ship anchor.

[–] mrmule@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Apparently The Chinese vessel Xin Xin Tiang was sailing over it when it happened

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Time to ban ALL Chinese vessels from the area.

If China can redraw their oceanographic borders, so can Europe.

[–] Taalen@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

That particular one is Taiwanese I believe, and passed several minutes before the outage maintaining a constant pace.

Finnish border guard has stopped a tanker registered to Cook Islands that's part of the Russian shadow fleet, which slowed down significantly while crossing the cable and was on site when the outage started.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hope they don't "rush in" to any conclusions.

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 6 months ago

Damn, again?

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I've always found it with that we just have these very important wires just lying there exposed on the sea bed... You'd think this kind of stack would have happened much more previously

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

I wonder what he gets out of it. I can understand the Kremlin making arson attacks happening in Europe for example, but this? What's the end goal here?

For me it will just awaken the sleepy countries faster.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago
[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world -2 points 6 months ago

Hmm. Fishy. The article makes it sound like they sea it as an accident. Hopefully this incident doesn't rise up any waves.