Groups of Putin's saboteurs terrorize Germany and Norway? Jan 10 2022 undersea Cable Connecting Norway With Arctic Satellite Station Has Been Mysteriously Severed (https://bit.ly/3CGn9RK). An undersea fiberoptic cable located between mainland Norway and the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean has been put out of action in a still-mysterious incident. The outage on the subsea communications cable - the furthest north of its kind anywhere in the world - follows an incident last year in which different cables linking an undersea surveillance network off the Norwegian coast were severed. The latest disruption involves one of two fiberoptic cables that enable communications between the Norwegian mainland and Norwegian-administered Svalbard that lies between the mainland and the North Pole (https://bit.ly/3Ch5uyt). The outage occurred on the morning of January 7, but was first widely reported yesterday. The extent of the damage is not clear from the official press release from Space Norway, the country's space agency, which maintains the cables primarily in support of the Svalbard Satellite Station (SvalSat), but it is significant enough that it is expected to require the services of an ocean-going cable-laying vessel (https://bit.ly/3Cn3OU2). On October 5, 2022, the Norwegian media again reported the loss of communication between the Svolv?r and Henningsvir junction stations, located at the two extreme points of the Lofoten archipelago. The Internet in Norway is underwater, since we are talking about networking hundreds of small fishing villages located on the islands. Also on the island of Svabald, the Norwegians have a communication station with SvalSat satellites, built on a mountain plateau and with about forty antennas. The station is connected to the mainland by two submarine cables, the receiving stations of which are connected to the network of the Lofoten archipelago. Since "research" ships sailed there the day before under the flags of Russia, it was not difficult for Norway to establish who cut the cable. However, since SvalSat is a commercial station, NATO did not raise a scandal. German rail (https://bit.ly/3fUKvtV) operator Deutsche Bahn said on Saturday that intentional interference was the cause of disruptions in the train network in northern Germany. "Sabotage to cables that were vital for train traffic meant Deutsche Bahn had to stop trains running in the north this morning for nearly three hours," Deutsche Bahn said. The German rail operator said security authorities had taken over the investigation. There was no immediate information on potential suspects. Investigators, however, said the communications cables were cut at one location outside Berlin and another in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia. German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said authorities "have to assume intentional acts" were behind the rail disruption as cables were severed at two locations.