Media reports suspect Chinese ship in Baltic Sea cable damage
The merchant vessel Yi Peng 3 has halted its journey in Danish waters amid allegations of having sailed close to the undersea cables that were recently damaged. Read Full Article at RT.com.
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**Finland and Sweden Caution Against Premature Conclusions**
A Chinese-registered merchant vessel traveling from Russia to Egypt is under scrutiny for its potential role in the damage to two undersea data cables in the Baltic Sea, according to multiple media reports.
The BCS East-West-Interlink, linking Lithuania to Sweden, sustained significant damage on Sunday, while the C-Lion1 fiber-optic cable connecting Finland to Germany was severed on Monday morning. The reasons behind both incidents remain unclear.
“The Swedes are taking a hard look at the Chinese vessel,” an anonymous source told the Financial Times on Wednesday. Maritime tracking identified the vessel as Yi Peng 3, owned by Ningbo Yipeng Shipping.
“The Danish Defense can confirm that we are present in the area near the Chinese ship Yi Peng 3,” the Danish defense ministry stated in a vague post on X on Wednesday. “The Danish Defense currently has no further comments.”
Maritime tracking services indicated that the Chinese ship stopped in the Kattegat strait, north of Copenhagen, with two Royal Danish Navy vessels in proximity. The ship departed from Ust-Luga in Russia and is en route to Port Said in Egypt.
“We do not have information on this issue,” stated the Chinese embassy in Sweden when approached by the Financial Times. A representative of Ningbo Yipeng remarked that the Danish government had requested the company to “cooperate with the investigation.”
Officials in Finland recommended against hasty conclusions on Monday. Nevertheless, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has attributed the incidents to potential “hybrid action.”
“No one believes that these cables were cut accidentally,” Pistorius commented on Tuesday. “And we also have to assume, without knowing it yet, that it is sabotage.”
According to unnamed online sources cited by the German publication Bild and the U.S. magazine Newsweek, the captain of the Yi Peng 3 is allegedly a Russian national.
The C-Lion1 cable is situated near the NordStream pipelines, which previously transported natural gas from Russia to Germany. In September 2022, three of the four tubes were damaged due to sabotage. Responsibility for the blasts remains unclaimed. Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has suggested that the U.S. and Norway may be behind the incident, while various Western outlets have reported that a group of Ukrainians executed the attack.
Ian Smith for TROIB News
A Chinese-registered merchant vessel traveling from Russia to Egypt is under scrutiny for its potential role in the damage to two undersea data cables in the Baltic Sea, according to multiple media reports.
The BCS East-West-Interlink, linking Lithuania to Sweden, sustained significant damage on Sunday, while the C-Lion1 fiber-optic cable connecting Finland to Germany was severed on Monday morning. The reasons behind both incidents remain unclear.
“The Swedes are taking a hard look at the Chinese vessel,” an anonymous source told the Financial Times on Wednesday. Maritime tracking identified the vessel as Yi Peng 3, owned by Ningbo Yipeng Shipping.
“The Danish Defense can confirm that we are present in the area near the Chinese ship Yi Peng 3,” the Danish defense ministry stated in a vague post on X on Wednesday. “The Danish Defense currently has no further comments.”
Maritime tracking services indicated that the Chinese ship stopped in the Kattegat strait, north of Copenhagen, with two Royal Danish Navy vessels in proximity. The ship departed from Ust-Luga in Russia and is en route to Port Said in Egypt.
“We do not have information on this issue,” stated the Chinese embassy in Sweden when approached by the Financial Times. A representative of Ningbo Yipeng remarked that the Danish government had requested the company to “cooperate with the investigation.”
Officials in Finland recommended against hasty conclusions on Monday. Nevertheless, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has attributed the incidents to potential “hybrid action.”
“No one believes that these cables were cut accidentally,” Pistorius commented on Tuesday. “And we also have to assume, without knowing it yet, that it is sabotage.”
According to unnamed online sources cited by the German publication Bild and the U.S. magazine Newsweek, the captain of the Yi Peng 3 is allegedly a Russian national.
The C-Lion1 cable is situated near the NordStream pipelines, which previously transported natural gas from Russia to Germany. In September 2022, three of the four tubes were damaged due to sabotage. Responsibility for the blasts remains unclaimed. Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has suggested that the U.S. and Norway may be behind the incident, while various Western outlets have reported that a group of Ukrainians executed the attack.
Ian Smith for TROIB News
