Cables connecting Finland with Germany, and Lithuania with Sweden, have been disrupted, just weeks after the United States warned that it had detected increased Russian military activity around key undersea cables.

German and Finland have expressed deep concern over the discovery of a severed undersea cable between the countries through the Baltic Sea

By Johan Ahlander, Essi Lehto and Andrius Sytas HELSINKI/STOCKHOLM/VILNIUS (Reuters) -Two undersea fibre-optic communications cables in the Baltic Sea, including one linking Finland and Germany, were severed,