{"id":178999,"date":"2024-11-20T17:39:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T17:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/20\/tracking-shows-chinese-vessel-in-area-when-baltic-sea-communication-cables-damaged\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T17:39:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T17:39:13","slug":"tracking-shows-chinese-vessel-in-area-when-baltic-sea-communication-cables-damaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/20\/tracking-shows-chinese-vessel-in-area-when-baltic-sea-communication-cables-damaged\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking shows Chinese vessel in area when Baltic Sea communication cables damaged"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Danish military says it is staying close to a Chinese ship in the country’s waters amid an investigation into damage caused to underwater cables in the Baltic Sea.\n <\/p>\n

Sky News’ Data & Forensics<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>unit has analysed marine tracking data that shows the Chinese ship Yi Peng 3 left the Russian port of Ust-Luga on 15 November. It passed close to both internet cables around the time each was damaged on Sunday and Monday.<\/p>\n

The Danish navy has been following the Chinese-flagged carrier since Monday evening using at least five different patrol ships as it travelled through Denmark’s waters, according to data from MarineTraffic.<\/p>\n

The Yi Peng 3 has now stopped in the Kattegat Sea area and is currently at anchor with a Danish navy ship anchored close by.<\/p>\n

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The Danish Armed Forces told Sky News they are “present in the area near the Chinese ship Yi Peng 3”.<\/p>\n

Sweden is “taking a hard look” at vessel Yi Peng 3 and the role it might have played, a source familiar with the investigation told the Financial Times.<\/p>\n

According to the authorities, the first undersea internet cable ‘BCS’ was damaged around 8am UK time on Sunday 17 November and the second cable ‘C-Lion1’ was damaged at around 2am UK time on Monday 18 November.<\/p>\n

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A spokesperson for telecommunications company Telia Lithuania said the cause was “likely physical damage to the cable itself”.<\/p>\n

The Swedish Prosecution Authority has launched a preliminary criminal investigation into the damaged cables on suspicion of possible sabotage.<\/p>\n

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The country’s civil defence minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin said its armed forces and coastguard had picked up ship movements corresponding with the damage to the cables.<\/p>\n

A NATO official said “it is important that the facts are established. It is crucial that we’re working together to enhance the security of undersea infrastructure”.<\/p>\n

Russia has said it is “absurd” to suggest it had any involvement in damage caused to two fibre-optic data telecommunication cables in the Baltic Sea.<\/p>\n

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Yi Peng 3 is owned by Ningbo Yipeng Shipping based in eastern China. It owns one other Chinese-flagged bulk carrier.<\/p>\n

Sky News has contacted Ningbo Yipeng for comment.<\/p>\n

Baltic Sea infrastructure damaged<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is not the first time such infrastructure has been damaged in the Baltic Sea.<\/p>\n

In September 2022, three Nord Stream gas pipelines between Russia and Germany were destroyed seven months after Moscow invaded Ukraine.<\/p>\n

No one took responsibility for the blasts and while some Western officials initially blamed Moscow, which the Kremlin denied, US and German media reported pro-Ukrainian actors may have been responsible.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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