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Two undersea communications cables in the Baltic Sea have been knocked offline, and at least one appears to have been physically cut. CNN<\/em> received confirmation<\/a> from a local telecom company that a cable between Lithuania and Sweden was cut on Sunday morning. A second cable, about 60 to 65 miles from the first, routes communications between Finland and Germany. The cause of that outage has yet to be determined, but officials suspect \u201cintentional damage.\u201d<\/p>\n The outages follow a September warning<\/a> from the US about an increased risk of Russian \u201csabotage\u201d of undersea cables. That came after a joint investigation<\/a> from public broadcasters from Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland that Russia had deployed a fleet of spy ships in Nordic waters. They were reportedly part of a program designed to sabotage the cables (and wind farms).<\/p>\n This doesn\u2019t leave the European nations entirely without online communications, as data is typically routed through multiple cables to avoid overreliance on a single one.<\/p>\n Cinia, the state-controlled Finnish company that oversees the second cable, said it wasn\u2019t yet determined what caused the outage since they haven\u2019t yet physically inspected it. However, the sudden outage reportedly suggests it, too, was cut by an outside force.<\/p>\n