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Sweden investigating new reports of Baltic Sea cable damage.

Sweden's coast guard has dispatched a vessel to waters east of Gotland. A number of telecommunications and power cables have been damaged in the Baltic Sea in recent months.

mediafaro.org/article/20250221

Deutsche Welle · Sweden investigating new reports of Baltic Sea cable damageBy Zac Crellin
#Sweden#BalticSea#UnderseaCable
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#Sweden seizes #cargoship after another #underseacable hit in suspected #sabotage
Swedish authorities have "seized" a vessel – believed to be the cargo #ship #Vezhen – "suspected of carrying out sabotage" after a cable running between #Sweden and #Latvia in the #BalticSea was damaged on the morning of January 26.
#NATO increasing patrols in the #Baltic as region awaits navy drones. Sweden, NATO's newest member, already deployed three warships and a surveillance airplane.
theregister.com/2025/01/27/swe

The Register · Sweden seizes cargo ship after another undersea cable hit in suspected sabotageBy Jude Karabus
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#UnderseaCable near #Taiwan damaged in suspected sabotage, allegedly by the #Shunxin39, a Cameroonian-registered cargo ship with suspected links to mainland #China.
Taiwan is investigating the case and accelerating efforts to bolster telecom infrastructure with satellite systems.
abc.net.au/news/2025-01-06/und

No way they were testing things in the Baltic and North Sea, not just technique but also responses.... just no way.... </s>

ABC News · Undersea cable near Taiwan damaged in suspected sabotage by ChinaBy Najma Sambul
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Harry Sintonen

It appears that Russia has figured out a secondary function for their grey fleet: Hybrid warfare.

They create a "shipping company" to some country outside of the sanctions. The company likely has only a single asset: the vessel itself. The vessels are very old and in poor condition and have no insurance. A crew is hired to operate the vessel.

Normally these vessel are used to circumvent the sanctions in place, for example to sell Russian oil.

As a recent new development it appears that these vessels are also used to perform hybrid operations that target undersea cables. Prime example is the Baltic sea that is relatively shallow, and the cable locations are well documented. There has been multiple recent incidents involving ships that "accidentally" drag their anchors and cause damage.

The operation likely also involves finding crew members willing to take a compensation for performing the malicious task of dragging the anchor on the seabed. This is made easier by the fact that the crew can claim ignorance or bad seamanship. The threat to these persons is very limited, as the Nordic countries have very lenient legal systems. It is unlikely that they would be incarcerated for a significant amount of time, even if found guilty of sabotage.

The payout vs the investment is significant. The damage caused by the disruption of the undersea #telecommunications and electricity cables likely far exceeds the value of the ship or the cargo combined. The involved ship can just ignore any requests to stop or allow for inspections, as long as they are in international waters.

Considering there is a really high barrier in disrupting international shipping, anyone willing to abuse the system can continue to do so until significant changes will be made.

#hybridwarfare#sanctions#underseacable
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Underwater footage raises suspicions of #underseacable #sabotage as #Europe authorities board #China flagged #ship for investigation
Records show that the ship passed over the BCS East-West Interlink connecting #Sweden to #Lithuania while making slow, erratic movements uncharacteristic of an underway commercial #cargoship last November 17. It happened again the following day when the #YiPeng3 was over the C-Lion1 cable between #Finland and #Germany.
tomshardware.com/networking/un

Tom's Hardware · Underwater footage raises suspicions of undersea cable sabotage as European authorities board Chinese ship for investigationBy Jowi Morales
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Olly 👾

Finland says latest Fiber-Optic Cable Break was an Accident, not Sabotage.

In an official statement, Finland's police said they have no ongoing criminal investigation into the recent cable break, dismissing previous reports that the incident was allegedly caused by malicious activity.

poliisi.fi/en/-/police-have-no

#finland#underseacable#breach
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