submarine cable

The National Security Commission chaired by Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas on Wednesday met to discuss response to incidents in the Baltic Sea.

There is no proof that Russian or Chinese vessels deliberately damaged subsea communication and power cables in the Baltic Sea in recent months, says Director of Lithuania’s State Security Department (VSD) Darius Jauniškis.

Repair work on the damaged sea cable will start as soon as the vessel needed for the work is available, representatives of the Latvian State Radio and Television Centre (LVRTC) informed LETA.

On Sunday, yet another subsea cable was damaged in the Baltic Sea and head of Lithuania’s State Security Department (VSD) says the incidents may be linked to the upcoming synchronisation of the electricity system of the Baltic States with Western Europe.

After a subsea fibre optic cable connecting Sweden and Latvia was cut in the Baltic Sea last Sunday, one in a series of similar incidents recently, President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda stated that the culprits must compensate for the damage.

A subsea optical cable of the Latvian State Radio and Television Centre (LVRTC) was damaged in the Baltic Sea on Sunday. Swedish authorities have stopped the ship Vezhen, registered in Malta, on suspicion that it might have damaged the cable. Lithuanian ministers of foreign affairs and defence have ...

Early on 26 January, the submarine optical fibre cable in the Baltic Sea belonging to SJSC Latvia State Radio and Television Centre (LVRTC) was damaged. LVRTC’s Data Transmission Monitoring System detected disruptions in data transmission services on the Ventspils–Gotland (Fårösund) segment. LVRTC c...

Lithuania has secured 10 million euros in EU funding for preparatory work for a new submarine cable to Poland, named Harmony Link, and around 5 million euros for another two energy projects, the Energy Ministry said on Friday.

Lithuanian and Polish power transmission companies Litgrid and PSE have asked the EU for financial support to carry out feasibility studies for a new Baltic submarine cable.