Authorities in Finland say a submarine data communications cable across the Baltic Sea between Finland and Germany has broken and the cause for the disruption is being investigated.
    • LilDumpy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 hours ago

      People sure are quick to blame Russia, when in reality, it’s Hvaldimir, a rogue spy Beluga whale. I mean, sure, he was trained by Russia, but now he’s a merc for hire. This was his first solo gig to get him international notoriety and tell us he’s up for grab$.

  • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 hours ago

    So was it the the Russians who blew up their own Nord pipeline, or was it that Ukrainian guy with a yacht? It’s hard to keep track

    Data cables defo Russia sabotage (if deliberate), doesn’t serve anyone else’s goals

      • oce 🐆@jlai.luEnglish
        51·
        2 hours ago

        Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky initially approved the plan, according to one officer who participated and three people familiar with it. But later, when the CIA learned of it and asked the Ukrainian president to pull the plug, he ordered a halt, those people said. Zelensky’s commander in chief, Valeriy Zaluzhniy, who was leading the effort, nonetheless forged ahead.

        Not exactly on their own initially according to this article.

        • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          2 hours ago

          Zelensky took Zaluzhniy to task, but the general shrugged off his criticism, according to three people familiar with the exchange. Zaluzhniy told Zelensky that the sabotage team, once dispatched, went incommunicado and couldn’t be called off because any contact with them could compromise the operation.

          “Oops” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
          91·
          2 hours ago

          Except for the German federal prosecutors, Dutch officials, former Ukranian commander in chief, and the sabotage team themselves, I suppose you’re right.

          Days after the attack, in October 2022, Germany’s foreign secret service received a second tipoff about the Ukrainian plot from the CIA, which again passed on a report by the Dutch military intelligence agency MIVD. It offered a detailed account of the attack, including the type of boat used and the possible route taken by the crew, according to German and Dutch officials.

          Inasumuch as you can have a source for a covert operation after the fact.

          • BlackLaZoR@fedia.io
            2·
            1 hour ago

            Can you link the direct source - like, statement of german police or official press conference?

            I’ve spent some time looking into this and found no direct sources.

            BTW, these articles are copypaste - There were bunch of much older (2023?) ones which I also failed to find any credible source for.

            EDIT: Correction, the first articles about this came out 3 months ago

            The part about Zelenski ordering sabotage while drunk has both no source and is utterly ridiculous.