Danish Defense are present in the area near the Chinese ship ” Yi Peng 3,” the military
Boris Potreaus : that the damage to the two undersea communications cables may have been “resulting from sabotage activity !
The Danish military announced that it is “closely following” a Chinese cargo ship that dropped its anchor in the Kattegat Strait, which separates Sweden from Denmark, west of the Baltic Sea, causing telecommunications cables on the seabed to be cut.
Presence of a naval unit
The army confirmed, via a post on its official page on the “X” platform, the presence of a naval unit affiliated with it in the area where the Chinese ship “Yi Peng 3“ is located, which is located within Danish territorial waters.It is quite rare for Denmark’s military to comment publicly on individual vessels travelling in Danish waters. It did not mention the cable breaches or say why it was staying with the ship.
Its journey to the Egyptian port
Marine traffic sites indicated that the Chinese cargo ship “Yi Peng 3” sailed from the Russian port of “Ust Luga”, located on the Baltic Sea, on its journey to the Egyptian port of Port Said. However, it dropped its anchor in the area where the communication cables, which consist of a bundle of optical fibers, were cut, to transmit data at high speed.
China had previously admitted, in early August, that a Hong Kong-registered cargo ship was responsible for damaging the natural gas pipeline known as the Baltic Connector, which transports gas between Estonia and Finland.
Increased the level of tension
Although a Chinese official confirmed that his country “attaches great importance to protecting the infrastructure on the seabed,” the recurrence of incidents caused by Chinese ships has increased the level of tension, prompting German
Is that Sabotage activity ?
Defense Minister Boris Potreaus to state that the damage to the two undersea communications cables may have been “resulting from sabotage activity, which falls within the framework of hybrid warfare.” Wheres Russia dismissed on Wednesday any suggestion that it had been involved in damaging the two cables.
Interruption of two telecom cables
On the other hand that Swedish Civil Defense Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin told Reuters that the country’s armed forces and coastguard had picked up ship movements that corresponded with the interruption of two telecom cables in the Baltic Sea.
It is noteworthy that European governments accused Russia of escalating hybrid attacks on Ukraine’s Western allies, but stopped short of directly accusing Russia of destroying the cables.
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