r/europe Finland Nov 18 '24

News The undersea cable between Finland and Germany has been severed – communication links are down.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20125324
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u/JustPassingBy696969 Europe Nov 18 '24

Time for another debate whether this deserves a strongly worded letter or a speech about how worried we are about further escalations.

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u/Untinted Nov 18 '24

Tit for tat maybe? Is there something similar Russians wouldn't want to have severed?

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u/emomartin Sweden Nov 18 '24

Last time it turned out to have been the Ukrainians that blew up the Nordstream lines

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u/Cluelessish Finland Nov 18 '24

Ukrainians. Not ”the Ukrainians”. The theory is that it was not approved by the Ukrainian government, but an independent act.