A Chinese ship is suspected of sabotaging undersea cables
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The ship is accused of dragging its anchor across the seabed.

Original WSJ article is behind a paywall.

A Chinese commercial ship is suspected of deliberately dragging its anchor to cut undersea cables that connect countries over the internet, The Wall Street Journal reports.

International investigators reportedly believe the crew aboard Yi Peng 3, a bulk carrier full of Russian fertilizer, dragged its anchor for more than 100 miles across the Baltic seabed, damaging the cables that run across it. Two different internet links — one between Sweden’s Gotland Island and Lithuania, and another between Finland and Germany — stopped working earlier this month, prompting the investigation by authorities from all four countries and other nations.

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It’s not the first time European officials have suspected Russia of undersea infrastructure sabotage since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But officials have been hesitant to accuse the Kremlin outright of interference, the Journal reports, in part for fear of further escalating tensions between Russia and Europe.

  • derpgon@programming.devEnglish
    133·
    24 days ago

    They desperately want to end themselves, and then blame it on others. “Oh we didn’t do anything, yet we got spanked. Only if we got the chance to prove we are strong. We lost only because we got outnumbered.”.

    They are bullies, and always have been. They are just waiting for EU to snap so they have an excuse to launch nukes.

    • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      24 days ago

      They will never launch nukes, putin is a small person scared of death, remember those super long tables to not catch “a disease” ? He’s notoriously known for being scared of infection.