Fingers are being pointed at Russia as one of the the cables connected NATO nations Germany and Finland. The latter was allowed entry into NATO despite Russia’s objections last year.

“We are deeply concerned about the severed undersea cable connecting Finland and Germany in the Baltic Sea,” the two countries said in a joint statement. “The fact that such an incident immediately raises suspicions of intentional damage speaks volumes about the volatility of our times.”

The other cable that appears to have been severed connected NATO nations Lithuania and Sweden, which joined the alliance this year.

According to Dailywire:

Lithuania’s Telia Lietuva Chief Technology Officer Andrius Šemeškevičius said: “The cable was cut on Sunday morning, at around 10:00.”

Carl-Oskar Bohlin, Sweden’s minister of civil defence, told the media on Monday that it was critical that authorities quickly learn why the two cables were no longer working.

There was no official indication that sabotage was to blame as investigators still worked to locate the exact area where the cables were cut.

However, given the rugged design of the cables, human activity was almost certainly to blame for the damage, experts said. The fact that two separate cables were damaged in the span of less than 24 hours — each of which connected two different NATO members — raised fears of sabotage.

If this is Russia’s doing, then the world has to wonder what they have planned. If it was someone else trying to frame Russia, then it would seem they’re attempting to stir up further threats of World War II. Either way, this development bodes ill for Europe and the rest of the world.