The Danish military said they are near the Chinese vessel Yi Peng 3, which is anchored in the waters Denmark. Traffic tracking data indicates that this vessel was in the area of the cable damage.
The Danish military said on Wednesday, November 20, that they are near the Chinese vessel Yi Peng 3, which is anchored in Danish waters. The announcement came days after two underwater telecommunications cables were damaged in the Baltic Sea. According to data from the MarineTraffic tracking service, the Chinese bulk carrier was anchored in the Kattegat Strait between Denmark and Sweden, and a Danish Navy patrol ship was nearby, writes Reuters.
The Danish military did not mention the cable breaks or explain why they were near the vessel in a statement posted on social media X. However, Swedish police later told news agency TT that they were also interested in the Yi Peng 3, adding that there may be other vessels of interest to the Swedish investigation.
As Reuters reports, traffic tracking data indicates that the Chinese vessel left the Russian port of Ust-Luga on November 15 and was in the area where the cable was damaged, with other vessels also in the area.
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000Baltic Sea cable breaks: Sweden and Pistorius claim sabotage
On November 17, an underwater communication cable running between Lithuania and Sweden was damaged. The next day – a cable connecting Finland and Germany. According to the Finnish company Cinia, the cliff occurred in the exclusive economic zone of Sweden, east of the southern tip of the island of Åland, about 700 kilometers from Helsinki. Later, the company assumed that the cable was broken by an anchor or a bottom trawl.
On Tuesday, November 19, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius called the damage to the two cables sabotage. “No one believes that these cables were disconnected by accident,” he said on the sidelines of a meeting of the heads of defense departments of the European Union countries in Brussels.
Later, the Swedish authorities qualified the cable break in the Baltic Sea as sabotage. The case is being handled by the Kingdom's National Police Directorate. The preliminary investigation is at an early stage, the Swedish prosecutor's office said.
Swedish Defense Minister Carl-Oscar Bolin told Reuters the day before that the country's armed forces and coast guard recorded the movement of ships, which correlates with the break of two telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea. .