The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, stated that the damage to two underwater telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea was not accidental.
“This was not an accident, like the bombing of Nord Stream,” said the diplomat in an interview with Cadena SER. “We need to get used to the fact that this type of critical infrastructure is very vulnerable.”
“We must take action to preserve this infrastructure on which everyday life depends,” – he said, reports TASS.
Borrell did not hold the Russian Federation responsible for the incident, but added that “it was not an accident.”
As reported EADailyOn November 17 and 18, an incident occurred that caused damage to two cables at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. As stated yesterday, November 21, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Maria ZakharovaMoscow hopes that the Russian-Chinese hysteria in the context of accusations that a Chinese cargo ship damaged two telecommunications cables at the bottom of the Baltic Sea will subside and that Stockholm will complete the investigation, and not as in the case of Nord Streams.
As reported EADailyIn Stockholm, the possible involvement of the Yi Peng 3 cargo ship, registered in China, in the damage suffered by two submarine telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea between Finland-Germany and Sweden-Lithuania is being studied. The Danish Navy boarded the Yi Peng 3 in the Baltic Sea.
The German newspaper Bild, citing law enforcement sources, states in its article that the captain of the ship Yi Peng 3 was allegedly a Russian citizen. The fact that the captain of the Yi Peng 3 is supposedly Russian became known only after the freighter stopped. German federal police, cooperating with Finland and Sweden, joined the investigation into the incidents. A German coast guard ship is sent to the scene of the incident. According to preliminary data, damage to the cables could have been caused by a lowered anchor or by the use of a bottom trawl, Bild claims.
The Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat wrote that the Yi Peng 3 was in Danish waters, accompanied by a patrol boat, and that its route passed near the C-Lion1 cable when reports of its damage appeared. The breakage of the C-Lion1 cable was known on November 18. According to the Finnish operator Cinia Oy, the cause was an “external influence”, although the possibility that intentional damage may have occurred cannot be ruled out.
