The Danish military said Wednesday that it was staying close to a Chinese ship currently sitting idle in Danish waters, days after two fiber-optic data telecommunication cables in the Baltic Sea were severed.
Chinese bulk carrier Yi Peng 3 was anchored in the Kattegat strait between Denmark and Sweden on Wednesday, with a Danish navy patrol ship at anchor nearby, MarineTraffic vessel tracking data showed.
“The Danish Defense can confirm that we are present in the area near the Chinese ship Yi Peng 3,” the military said in a post on social media X, adding it had no further comments.
It is quite rare for Denmark’s military to comment publicly on individual vessels travelling in Danish waters.
It did not mention the cable breaches or say why it was staying with the ship.
Persons:
Yi Peng, “, Carl, Oskar Bohlin, Dmitry Peskov, ”
Organizations:
Danish Defense, Swedish Civil Defense, Reuters, coastguard
Locations:
Danish, Baltic, Denmark, Sweden, Russian, Ust, Luga, Lithuania, Finland, Germany, Swedish, Russia