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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent

Swedish PM says Baltic sea now ‘high risk’ after suspected cable sabotage

A patrol ship at sea, with a larger shipping vessel on the horizon behind it
A Danish naval patrol vessel surveils the Yi Peng 3, which had sailed over the cables about the time they were severed, in the Kattegat strait. Photograph: Mikkel Berg Pedersen/EPA

The Swedish prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, has said the Baltic sea is now a “high risk” zone as he met Nordic and Baltic leaders days after a suspected sabotage attack on undersea cables.

The Swedish prime minister declined to speculate on who may have been responsible for the severing of two fibre optic telecoms cables in the Baltic last week. A Chinese ship – the Yi Peng 3 – that sailed over the cables about the time they were severed has remained anchored in the Kattegat strait between Sweden and Denmark since 19 November.

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