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Sweden’s prosecution office said it launched a probe into “sabotage” over damage to two undersea Baltic Sea cables, connecting Lithuania and Sweden and Finland and Germany.

“The offense is currently being investigated as sabotage. The preliminary investigation is ongoing and at an early stage. There is no further information to share about the investigation at this time,” prosecutor Henrik Soderman said in a statement just hours after neighboring Finland said it had also opened a police investigation.

The war in Ukraine and the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines forced Germany to look elsewhere for energy and it has built a series of gas terminals on its coast.

Increased drone activity around the new infrastructure however raised suspicions that the terminals were being scouted “for the purposes of sabotage,” German officials said.According to German media reports, the reconnaissance was carried out by unmanned Russian military aircraft.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said in October that Moscow was using “hybrid means” to target Germany, adding: “We see many, many examples, time and again.” Drones above industrial sites were “not there to observe the beautiful local landscape, but because there is a chemical park there and a... storage facility for nuclear waste nearby,” she said.

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