Denmark and Norway continue to investigate damaged cables in Baltic Sea

Danish and Nordic teams are continuing to inspect undersea cables aft 2 were damaged successful the Baltic Sea betwixt Germany and Finland, and Sweden and Lithuania.

"We are looking thoroughly and earnestly into it, besides successful airy of the existent governmental situation. I enactment that the German and Swedish authorities are suspecting sabotage," Danish Minister of Defence, Troels Lund Poulsen, said aft a gathering with his Nordic colleagues and the Ukrainian Minister of Defence.

"Should it beryllium the case, past it is of people precise worrying. The Danish authorities are monitoring the concern intimately and contiguous I person been capable to sermon the substance with damaged cables with my Nordic colleagues and however they look astatine the situation," helium added.

It comes aft the Danish subject announced it is monitoring a Chinese vessel spotted successful its waters conscionable 2 days aft the cables were cut.

MarineTraffic vas tracking information showed the Chinese vas Yi Peng 3 anchored successful the Kattegat strait betwixt Denmark and Sweden connected Wednesday. A Danish navy patrol vessel was anchored adjacent by.

Asked astir the Denmark's activities successful the area, Poulsen said "it is nary concealed that the Danish Defence person been pursuing the ship. And the applicable authorities are looking into the matter."

Finnish state-controlled information services supplier Cinia reported that a severed information cablegram moving astir 1,200 kilometres from the Finnish superior of Helsinki to the German larboard metropolis of Rostock, was detected connected Monday.

It followed a akin incidental involving a communications cablegram betwixt Lithuania and Sweden, which was chopped connected Sunday morning, according to telecommunications institution Telia Lithuania.

The damaged cablegram was astir 95 to 105 kilometres from the severed cablegram betwixt Germany and Finland.

Germany's defence curate said connected Tuesday that officials person to presume harm to the 2 cables was caused by sabotage - though helium said they person nary impervious astatine present.

The overseas ministries of Finland and Germany had already said Monday evening that the harm raised suspicion of sabotage.

They said successful a associated connection that the harm comes astatine a clip that “our European information is not lone nether menace from Russia‘s warfare of aggression against Ukraine, but besides from hybrid warfare by malicious actors.”