Two weekends ago data cables in the Baltic Sea – one between Sweden and Lithuania, the other Finland and Germany – were severed. At the same time, ever vigilant maritime open-source intelligence gatherers (people looking at the internet) spotted that the Yi Peng 3,

Sweden's prime minister says his government has formally asked China to cooperate in explaining the recent rupture of data cables on the Baltic Sea bed in an area where a China-flagged vessel was sighted.

NATO warships have surrounded Yi Peng 3, a Chinese bulk carrier at the center of an international probe into suspected sabotage.

NATO is investigating the Chinese ship suspected of deliberately damaging the undersea cables connecting some of its members.

Sweden is asking a Chinese vessel to return to Swedish waters to help facilitate an investigation into recent breaches of undersea fibre-optic cables in the Baltic Sea, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Tuesday,

Multiple countries are investigating and the authorities in Europe say they have not ruled out sabotage. But U.S. intelligence officials have assessed that the cables were not cut deliberately.

Sweden has formally requested China's cooperation in investigating damage to two undersea cables in the Baltic Sea. The incident, suspected to be sabotage, involves a Chinese bulk carrier, Yi Peng 3.

In a recent development it has been known that the undersea cables which were connecting Finland and Sweden to the Central Europe were cut and it is being reported that it was certain sabotage from a Chinese Ship.

Operators of telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea, connecting Sweden with Lithuania and Finland with Germany, reported their repair. The damage might have been caused by the Chinese ship Yi Peng 3.

Operators of telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea, which connect Sweden with Lithuania and Finland with Germany, have reported their repair. The damage might have been caused by the Chinese ship Yi Peng 3.