Europe’s undersea infrastructure keeps getting damaged. What’s going on?

Flavius Niculescu

London CNN  —  On Sunday, an undersea cable ferrying data between Sweden and Latvia was damaged, most likely as a result of an external force , Latvia said. This is just the latest in a string of incidents since late 2022 causing damage to Europe’s infrastructure that crisscrosses the bottom of the Baltic Sea — pipes carrying natural gas and cables transporting electricity and data. Such incidents have become more frequent over the past couple of years, raising suspicions they are the result of