On Sunday morning, the connecting undersea cable was damaged Sweden i Lithuania. On Monday night, the connecting cable failed Finland z Germany. A few hours earlier, there was another failure. As “Iltalehti” points out, he then stopped responding system AIS on a Chinese cargo ship Yi Peng 3. The system is responsible, among other things, for transmitting the unit's position.
The failure lasted until 10:41 p.m. on Sunday. The ship was then in the area where the damage occurred Finnish-German cable. The newspaper notes that the cable failed less than four hours after system AIS on the Chinese ship started responding again.
Cable damage in the Baltic Sea. The suspicious vessel was coming from Russia
“Iltalehti” indicates that the entity is currently being monitored by Danish warships. It's not just a failure of the tracking system. On Monday Yi Peng 3 changed course at the intersection of undersea cables. The ship's crew allegedly argued this with bad weather. However, other units in this area did not report the need to change course.
In addition, before suspicious movements at the site of damaged cables, Yi Peng 3 stopped in a Russian port Ust-Luga. Do Russia sailed from Egypt. Due to cutting the cable Finland and Sweden established a joint investigation team, which he notified Timo Kilpeläinendeputy head of the Finnish Criminal Police.
The head of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Radosław Sikorski, also spoke on the matter. – Our special services, ABW and others, monitor (the case – ed.) and we know more than can be proven in courtthan we can say. There are already some suspicions, but I can't say, he said.
Cut cable in the Baltic Sea. The Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs recalls Article 5.
On Tuesday, the Finnish Minister of Foreign Affairs stated: Brusselsthat the application of Art. 5 North Atlantic Treaty is possible not only in the case of a military attack, but also in the case of hybrid actions.
Moreover, she suggested that it would be possible to trigger the article on the collective defense of the Alliance if it turned out that a “state entity” was behind the damage to telecommunications cables.