Investigations have been launched into the destruction of the two fibre-optic communications cables earlier this week. One linked Finland and Germany while the other connected Sweden and Lithuania.
The Danish military says it is staying close to a Chinese ship in the country's waters amid an investigation into damage caused to underwater cables in the Baltic Sea. Sky News' Data & Forensics unit has analysed marine tracking data that shows the Chinese ship Yi Peng 3 left the Russian port of Ust-Luga on 15 November. It passed close to both internet cables around the time each was damaged on Sunday and Monday.
The Swedish Prosecution Authority has launched a preliminary criminal investigation into the damaged cables on suspicion of possible sabotage. Read more:Ukraine fires UK-supplied missiles at targets inside RussiaUS and other embassies in Kyiv close The country's civil defence minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin said its armed forces and coastguard had picked up ship movements corresponding with the damage to the cables. A NATO official said 'it is important that the facts are established.
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