It was reported on Monday that two telecommunications cables running along the bottom of the Baltic Sea had been damaged.
First, a break in the C-Lion1 submarine cable between Finland and Germany was reported by its owner, Cinia. Later on Monday, the Lithuanian public broadcaster LRT also reported damage to a submarine cable between Lithuania and Sweden.
Helsingin Sanomat notes that the Finnish and German foreign ministers issued a joint statement on Monday evening expressing their "deep concern" about the incident.
"The fact that such an event immediately raises suspicions of intentional damage says a lot about the instability of our times," the statement said.
It added that European security is threatened by malicious actors engaging in hybrid warfare.
Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen (NCP) told HS that she was following the situation closely.
"We don't know what is going on yet, and I'm not going to speculate on it yet," she told the paper.
Valtonen pointed out that the EU and Nato have already taken action to prepare for hybrid attacks, including protecting critical infrastructure.
Suspicions of sabotage
Helsingin Sanomat reports speculation that the damage to the two telecom cables in the Baltic Sea was probably caused by the same action.
Tapio Frantti, Professor of Cyber Security at the University of Jyväskylä and former Research Professor of Network Technology at VTT, told HS that if this had been the result of an accident, it would certainly have been reported.
According to Frantti, the damage to the cables strongly suggests deliberate action.
Audrius Stasiulaitis of the telecom operator Telia Lietuva confirmed to HS that the disruption in the connection between Sweden and Lithuania was not an equipment failure, but a physical fault in the fibre cable.
Ilta-Sanomat notes that Tampere University researcher Dr Pekka Kallioniemi made a posting on the messaging service X already on Friday saying that he believes the Kremlin is preparing to carry out massive sabotage operations on underwater internet cables.
Kallioniemi told IS that Russia has long been mapping critical infrastructure in waterways and that he was "not surprised at all" by Monday's news.
The economic and business daily Kauppalehti is among the papers reporting that Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen stated that if the damage to the cables turns out to have been the result of sabotage by a foreign state, the identity of the entity responsible will be made public.
"If it is a state action, it will be taken as an attack on a democratically free society," the paper quotes Valtonen as saying.
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Loviisa 2 offline
Power production at the number 2 unit of Fortum's Loviisa nuclear power plant was suspended at around 9pm on Monday evening, reports Ilta-Sanomat. The cause is a malfunction in the reactor auxiliary system and the exact cause of the failure is being investigated, Fortum said in a press release quoted by the paper.
IS also points to an update on the Nord Pool power exchange web site made overnight stating the earliest date for the return to normal electricity production would be Thursday evening.
On Sunday, it was reported that production at Olkiluoto nuclear power plant's unit 3 reactor was also interrupted. According to the operator TVO, repairs there will take longer than previously expected.
New TV channel line-up
The channel positions for terrestrial television broadcasts received by antenna households change on Tuesday. High-definition (HD) channels will move to the top of the channel listings and basic digital TV channels further down the list.
STT news agency reports carried by the Uutissuomalainen news group remind viewers that change is taking place on the terrestrial TV network between 10am and 3pm, which means that there may be interruptions to TV broadcasts throughout Finland during the day.
High-definition channels will now be in positions 1-20, while basic DTV channels will move to positions 21-39.
If you are unable to watch any of the channels you are familiar with after the change in channel numbering, you should scan the channels on your set. Some TVs do this automatically.
The report suggests that for instructions on how to check if your TV is ready for high definition reception and how to scan for channels, one can find further information from the HDTV Guide provided by the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom.
By 2025, basic digital TV channels will cease broadcasting in Finland altogether.
According to Traficom, the vast majority of Finns already have a high-definition TV sets. High-definition channels should be displayed correctly immediately, or after channel scanning.
If you still have a TV set that does not have a HD receiver, following Tuesday's change, the basic DTV channels will appear on channels 21-39.
A complete switch-over to high definition broadcasts is scheduled for next year.
Traffic snarls, downed trees
Iltalehti tells readers to expect a storm moving into Finland on Wednesday to create "traffic chaos"
Finnish Meteorological Institute meteorologist Tuomo Bergman says in a release that strong winds will pile up snowdrifts, and driving conditions will become very bad across the country starting Wednesday evening.
These difficult driving conditions are expected to cause widespread disruption, especially to morning traffic on Thursday.
In addition to road traffic, heavy snow will affect rail and air traffic.
Maaseudun Tulevaisuus points to the likelihood of high winds knocking down trees, as did last weekend's storm that cut power supplies to well over 40,000 households.
Since the ground is not yet solidly frozen, trees are more easily uprooted by winter storms.
MST writes that according to the current forecast, most damage to forests is expected in the central parts of the country. Short power cuts are also a possibility.
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