Danish Navy Detains Chinese Cargo Ship

It is suspected of damaging cables in the Baltic Sea.

The Danish Navy has detained the Chinese cargo ship Yi Peng 3, which is suspected of damaging telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea. This was reported on Wednesday, November 20, by Defence24.

On November 19, in the Danish Straits near Danish territorial waters, the patrol ship P525 detained a Chinese vessel. A few hours later, another vessel, HDMS Soeloeven, which specializes in underwater work, approached the scene.

It is noted that the Chinese vessel was moving from the Russian port of Ust-Luga. There is no information yet on the inspection of the vessel by the boarding group of the Danish Ministry of Internal Affairs.

On Tuesday, the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat reported that the Chinese ship Yi Peng 3 was sailing near two damaged communications cables in the Baltic Sea around the time the faults were discovered.

On November 18, Andrius Šemeškevičius, the technical director of Lithuanian telecommunications company Telia, said that an undersea cable between Lithuania and Sweden, which runs in the Baltic Sea, had been damaged.

Telia transmits internet connections to Lithuania via three cables. The incident reduced internet capacity by a third, but connections for users have been restored, Šemeškevičius said.

Soon, Finnish authorities reported damage to an undersea cable that runs across the Baltic Sea between Finland and Germany.

Finnish state-owned data service provider Cinia said that a “fault” had been discovered in the C-Lion1 cable. It runs nearly 1,200 kilometers from the Finnish capital Helsinki to the German port city of Rostock.

CNN writes that these incidents occurred several weeks after the US warned of increased Russian military activity around key undersea cables.

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