An undersea cable connecting Sweden and Lithuania was damaged on Sunday morning. On Monday night, the cable connecting Finland and Germany broke down. A few hours ago, another failure occurred. As Iltalehti points out, the AIS system on the Chinese cargo ship Yi Peng 3 was responsible, among other things, for transmitting the location of troops.
The outage lasted until 10:41 p.m. Sunday. The ship was then in an area where a cable connecting Finland and Germany was damaged. The newspaper said the cable failed less than four hours after the Chinese ship's AIS system started responding again.
Cable damage in the Baltic Sea. The suspicious ship was coming from Russia.
“Iltalehti” indicates that this ship is currently being monitored by a Danish warship. It's not just a tracking system failure. On Monday, Yi Peng 3 changed course at a submarine cable intersection. The ship's crew reportedly claimed this due to bad weather. However, other units in the area reported no need to change course.
In addition, the Yipen 3 docked in Russia's Ust-Luga port before any suspicious activity occurred at the site of the cable damage. He sailed from Egypt to Russia. Finland and Sweden have established a joint investigation team in connection with the cable cutting, as announced by Timo Kilpeläinen, Deputy Chief of the Finnish Criminal Police.
Radosław Sikorski, head of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, also spoke on the issue. – Our special agencies, such as the Internal Security Service, are monitoring it (incidents) and know more than we can say and prove in court. He said he already had some suspicions, but couldn't say anything.
Cutting cables in the Baltic Sea. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland recalls Article 5.
On Tuesday, the Finnish Foreign Minister said in Brussels that the application of Article 2: Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty allows not only in the case of military attacks, but also in the case of hybrid actions.
He also suggested that the alliance's collective defense clause could be triggered if it were discovered that a “state entity” was behind the damage to communications cables.
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