Russian cable to Kaliningrad damaged in the Baltic Sea

The Russian Kingisepp-Kaliningrad communication cable was damaged in the Baltic Sea.

The Russian newspaper Vedomosti reported on this.

The damage took place in Finland’s exclusive economic zone, where a Russian vessel is currently working to restore the cable.

The cable itself belongs to the Russian telecommunications company Rostelecom, which provides communications services for the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation and is 1115 km long.

“Some time ago, Rostelecom’s submarine cable was damaged in the Baltic Sea due to external influence,” the company stated.

Currently, the Russian vessel Sivuch is working in the area of the damaged cable. According to the newspaper, it left Kronstadt at about 8:00 p.m. on Friday, and on Saturday, it started repair work.

At the same time, the Finnish government was informed that the Russian side would carry out work to restore the cable.

According to Kari Klemm, head of the Emergency Management Department at the Ministry of Labor and Economic Development of Finland, in late December, the country’s authorities learned that two cables running under the Baltic Sea between St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad had been broken.

Militarnyi previously reported that on November 18, 2024, a damaged submarine communication cable was discovered between Lithuania and Sweden after a similar incident between Finland and Germany.

On the same day, the Finnish company Cinia reported problems with its communication cable running under the Baltic Sea.

In addition to the Baltic Sea, cases of telecommunication cables being broken have also been observed around Taiwan.

A Chinese ship damaged a telecommunications cable off the coast of Taiwan. The incident occurred at approximately 7:00 a.m. on January 3, 2025, when the Chinese cargo ship Shunxin 39, flying the flag of Cameroon, was passing within the port of Keelung.